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Title: AUGSBURG OFFERS YOUTH AND FAMILY MAJOR ELCA NEWS SERVICE AUGSBURG OFFERS YOUTH AND FAMILY MAJOR 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.