Fall 2014/Fuller Live!

Menlo Park and Pasadena

TC591

Fee

TC591: THEOLOGY AND THE ARTS CAPSTONE COHORT (4 units: 160 Hours). Maria Fee.

DESCRIPTION: The master’s project is an integrative and culminating portion of the MA-WTA, MA-WMM, and MAT-TA degree programs. It provides students the opportunity to carefully and reflectively integrate their course work with their particular areas of artistic, ministerial, and/or cultural interest. The incorporation of applied fine and worship arts, course work, research, spirituality, and theological reflection lead to the development of a summative thesis or project (which will be undertaken in the Winter quarter).

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students who pass this course will have demonstrated that they (1) know the work of others in the integration of theology and the arts; (2) understand the range of artistic identities and vocations within the church and can articulate their own relationship to these vocations; (3) recognize theological themes and issues relating to the production of artistic and/or liturgical projects; (4) can think critically and theologically in the production of their own creative projects; and (5) are prepared to move forward in the development of a summative project or final paper.

COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for three-hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and discussion plus 10 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.

REQUIRED READING: 900 pp. required.

Buster, Ned, ed. It was Good Making Art to the Glory of God. 2nd ed. Square Halo Books, 2006. ISBN: 978-0978509712, Pub. Price $24.99 [79 pp. assigned].

Farrell, Michael. Collaborative Circles. The University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 978-0226238678, Pub. Price $35.00 [130 pp. assigned].

Keller, Timothy. Every Good Endeavor. Dalton, 2012. ISBN: 978-0525952701, Pub. Price $26.95 [200 pp. assigned].

Wiman, Christian. My Bright Abyss. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013. ISBN: 978-0374216788, Pub. Price $24.00 [178 pp. assigned].

Course Reader.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. DLAs-Research in action for proposal/project. This includes readings, sketches, models, and preliminary drafts. (10%) [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, #4, #5]. [10 hours].

2. Class attendance, participation in discussions, assigned readings [900 pages] [60 hours] and homework projects [10 hours] (20%) [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, #2, #3, #4].

3. Two presentations (15% each). The first presentation is a review and response of one of the assigned readings. [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #3, #4]. The second presentation concerns vocational research topic. (30% total) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1]. [12 hours].

4. Proposal for Master’s project. This includes artist statement, annotated bibliography, resource list, and timeline dates (15 pages.) (40%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #5]. [38 hours].

PREREQUISITES: Students are eligible (and encouraged) to take this course after completing 48 units of their degree program.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH5 requirement in the 120 MDiv Program. Required in the Theology and Arts emphasis. Option to count in the Worship and Music Ministry emphasis. Option to count in the Worship, Theology and the Arts emphasis.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.