Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York · Courses
CW
3 courses with the subject CW, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CW 103How do we imagine public, collective worship and ritual practices in the face of urgent
Introduction to Ritual climate disasters? This course offers an introduction to ways of thinking/feeling/doing and Worship (3 worship and rituals from the perspective of our relation to the earth. We will engage earthly, credits) human and more than human patterns, kin relations, justice, healing, restorative issues, In Person liturgical and theological themes, sounds, sacraments, community formations, rites of Capacity: uncapped passage and so on.
CW 104This course provides a basic introduction to the theology, ethics, and practice of Christian
Fundamentals of preaching. Students explore the nature and purpose of preaching in relation to the Preaching (3 credits) interpretation of texts, culture, and community contexts. Students hone the skills involved in In Person effective sermon design and delivery. Capacity: uncapped Prerequisite: HB 101 and NT 101 or BX 101.
CW 227God’s "God's Trombones" is a transdisciplinary course illustrating pedagogically the importance of
Trombones: Black women preachers along the intersections of Black/African American literature, music, Contemporary Black and womanist theology. Drawing on the womanist cadence of Alice Walker in literature and Women Preachers in the rhythmical flow of named womanist theologians, "God's Trombones" makes Literature and Music interventions at the intersections of African American literary criticism, music, and religious (3 credits) studies. Taking the sacred literature found within the In Person Black literary canon, this course shows how iconic writers, such as Toni Morrison, James Capacity: 25 Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and other authors take readers into the divinity of Black Melanie R. Hill women preachers and the beauty of the art of the sermon in Black literature and in music. Note: Religion and Black Experience concentration course SPRING 2027
