The Worship Arts minor equips you with skills and experience in worship to use in a variety of settings. This minor is a perfect complement to many other majors - like Theology, Audio Engineering, Digital Media, or Business.
Choose between two minor concentrations: Worship Leadership or Worship Technology. The Worship Leadership concentration focuses on leading and planning worship to prepare you for ministry in a church or the worship industry. The Worship Technology concentration focuses on audio and visual tech skills for worship, such as live sound, recording, streaming, and video.
Join GU’s Pursuit team to lead worship or run tech at various venues, including The Wednesday Experience (all campus gathering), Vespers student-led worship, and touring events.
Music Industry faculty
Learn from faculty with extensive experience in worship and the music industry, including writing music, playing in professional bands, professional studio and live sound engineers, and full-time worship ministry.
Professional worship opportunities
Join GU’s Pursuit team and lead worship professionally at rallies, camps, and conferences while still an undergraduate student. Earn money as part of the Summer Pursuit touring band.
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Worship Arts Minor Course Requirements
Visit the Online Catalog for an explanation of graduation requirements.
Worship Arts Minor Courses
This course explores digital media as an experimental cultural practice, with an emphasis on critical approaches to art and technology. Experiments in digital imaging, digital audio, digital video, and multi-media authoring will be conducted. Students will produce independent digital media production projects, individually and in groups. Course meetings include seminar-style discussion of reading and other materials, critiques of student work, tech workshops, production studios (session in which we brainstorm, research ideas, and work on projects), and screenings. (Offered every semester.)
Provides the skill set for reading and playing piano in commercial styles. Emphasis will be placed on reading chord charts, using the Nashville Number system, improvisation, chord voicing and inversions. A main emphasis will be to have the students be able to accompany themselves on piano/keyboard. The course is taken concurrently with MUTH 110 Commercial Music Theory. (Offered spring semester.)
Recital Class is designated as a requirement for all music majors, who must attend 12 concerts per semester. Music minors need to attend 9 concerts per semester and must be registred for Recital Class during the semesters they are taking applied lessons. Music majors are required to take this course every semester they are attending classes on campus.
This course is designed to provide a strong foundation and explores the various understandings and concepts of worship leading. The course will cover the importance of having a firm biblical foundation and a solid theology of worship, and how to present that within a worship set. Students will gain an understanding of the potential problems and pitfalls of worship leadership and how to deal with those challenges.
(Offered every semester)
This course will be taken for pass/fail credit.
Worship Arts in the 21st Century is designed to examine how Worship Arts worked 'yesterday', how it operates 'today' and to project how it is changing for 'tomorrow' with the intent of better aligning ourselves with practices to make a better connection with both believers and non-believers.
Introduces students to the historical, theological and philosophical foundations of music in Christian worship, providing instruction in the leadership and management of central musical acts within the Christian community, including singing and the use of instruments. Prereq: MUSG 164. (Offered fall semester of even calender years)
This course will serve as a basis for creating a foundation in keeping a connection between a students faith, how it can be used through the gift of music, and how to use those gifts to affect culture in a positive manner. Various types of music and their connection to culture as well as how todays culture affects students, music, and faith will be explored. (Offered fall semester.)
This course will explore the integration of various ethnic cultures in Christian worship songs in North American Churches. It also will examine African, African-American, Latino, Caribbean, and Asian worship music. The primary goal of this course is to raise awareness and equip students to value, plan, and lead worship music for a diverse congregation. The course will include discussions, music listening examples, and a group visit to a church in St. Louis. No particular music skills are required to take this course. Meets the general education global foundations requirement.
Prerequisite: MUSG 164 or THEO 110. (Offered Interterm)
This course integrates discussion with various ministry leaders, a local ministry application project, and attendance of the Calvin Worship Symposium in Grand Rapids, MI. We will address a variety of real-world worship ministry needs, practical technology skills, worship sources for the modern worship leader, and designing worship as discipleship. Prerequisites: MUSG 301 or MUSG 302. Fee $300
This course is specifically designed for Music Industry Studies majors. It will enable students to learn basic music theory concepts and some aural skills which will relate to the contemporary music industry. (Offered spring semester.)
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 111B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 112B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 212B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 411B
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 112C
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211C
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 212C
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311C
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312C
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: 411C
Course Fee: $385
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 111G
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 112G
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211G
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: 212G
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311G
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312G
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 411G
Course Fee: $385
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 111K
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 112K
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 211K
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 212K
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 311K
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 312K
Course Fee: $770
Prerequisite: MUAP 411K
Course Fee: $770
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 111P
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 112P
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211P
Course fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 212P
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311P
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312P
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 411P
Course Fee: $385
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 111S
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 112S
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211S
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 212S
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311S
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312S
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 411S
Course Fee: $385
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 111V
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 112V
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211V
Course Fee:$385
Prerequisite: MUAP 212V
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311V
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312V
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 411V
Course Fee: $385
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 111W
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUPA 112W
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 211W
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 212W
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 311V
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 312W
Course Fee: $385
Prerequisite: MUAP 412W
Course Fee: $385
This ensemble explores the various understandings and concepts of worship leading. Students will gain practical experience in contemporary worship methods and will have multiple opportunities to tour as a ministry team. Students are expected to remain in the ensemble for the full year. Members are admitted by audition. (Offered every semester.)
This ensemble explores the various understandings and concepts of worship leading. Students will gain practical experience in contemporary worship methods and will have multiple opportunities to tour as a ministry team. Students are expected to remain in the ensemble for the full year. Members are admitted by audition. (Offered every semester.)
This course focuses on the signal flow, microphone techniques, foundational and in-depth information of Pro Tools and studio recording techniques. It is based primarily on a "hands-on" approach offering substantial studio time for group and individual projects.
Prerequisite: MUSG226. (Offered every semester.)
Course Fee: $50
This course is designed to give students a broad base of background and introduction to the various areas of music technology. The student will be introduced to and will have the ability to explore and practice specific techniques required in creating computer-aided scores of their original compositions. Students will create multiple recordings of their own original scores as well as directed assignments in the areas of locking sound to video and scoring for a short film. Prerequisite: MUAP110 and MUTH110.
Course Fee: $50
Concert Production is a course designed to expand the skill set of the live audio engineer - to provide a set of related skills to provide the students with a wider foundation for better marketability in looking for future employment. The skills to be focused on are Lighting Design, Live Multi-Track Concert Recording and Concert Management. We will be doing a number of hands-on practical projects to provide further experience in these areas.
Prerequisites: MUSG 227 and MUSG 229. (Offered fall semester.)
This course is a study of music for students with no previous experience reading music. Foundational concepts of notation, pitch, rhythm, melodic and harmonic organization, scales, intervals, and musical terms will be covered. (Offered fall semester.)
Course changed to two credits effective Interterm 2020.
