College and University Courses
The Center has commissioned leading scholars and educators to create materials for self-study or classroom courses on topics of visual art, music, film, poetry, and popular culture. Each course includes a semester’s worth of readings, discussions, and assignments. Are you ready to learn? Or would you like to take these materials and use them at your school?
The courses are by: Laura Allred Hurtado, Jeremy Grimshaw, Lance Larsen, Eowyn Wilcox McComb, Mason Kamana Allred, Kimberly Johnson, and April Makgoeng.
Music as Cultural Practice in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
By Jeremy Grimshaw
This course will explore music within the history and culture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Drawing on methods from various disciplines, including musicology, ethnomusicology, media studies, etc., the course will examine the development of musical practices within the institutional Church as well as across varied historical and cultural strata of Latter-day Saint experience. Topics will range from historical hymnology (the study of congregational music), to “classical” music by LDS composers, to the diverse musical expressions of LDS musicians around the world, to the impact of broadcast and social media on LDS musics. The course will culminate in a presentation and research paper, by each student, on a current topic related to musical practices within the Church or its members.