Title: AUGSBURG OFFERS YOUTH AND FAMILY
MAJOR
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Augsburg College,
Minneapolis, is offering a new academic major in youth
and family ministry. Students majoring in youth and family
ministry will undertake interdisciplinary course work in
theology, education and social sciences. The major will
also combine practical and theological training, using the
resources of the Augsburg Youth and Family Institute and
its partner congregations, said the Rev. Richard A. Hardel,
Institute director.
Students will have the opportunity to do internships
at the approximately 50 Twin Cities-area congregations
that are partners in the Institute. The new major shows
that Augsburg #is responding to the needs of congregations
in the area of youth and family ministry,# said Hardel.
#People who graduate with this major will have the
opportunity to shape the faith and lives of many young
people.# The major will be offered in the fall of 1996.
Graduates might typically become directors of youth
or youth and family ministry in congregations. Augsburg is
one of the 28 colleges and universities of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America.
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