# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S923
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 225

FP. cannot see its way clear to defer to the demands of secular ac-
¥ crediting agencies in any matter which might militate against
F achievement of the objectives defined by the Church for this
E p pre-professional school.

The Senior College Curriculum

e. The construction of a suitable curriculum for the senior col-
E:lege involves a technical project which cannot be undertaken
r hastily. The dominant consideration by which the construction of
4 such a curriculum must be guided and from which its construction
, cannot be permitted to deviate is, of course, the needs of students
» who are being prepared only for the theological seminary with

service in the parish ministry as the exclusive immediate goal after
& the completion of the seminary training.

Although it is not difficult to identify certain broad areas of
g..study which must be included in the curriculum, it should frankly
be acknowledged that a detailed determination of the precise
courses which the curriculum should embrace and a judgment
= about the degree of flexibility which it should exhibit are matters
= which cannot be settled by means of any fixed rules. These are
g problems which invite a wide variety of personal opinion which
should be solicited and carefully weighed in order to arrive at
‘a workable and acceptable outline of studies.

At present it is impossible to go beyond the highly preliminary
step of indicating that the student in the senior college will need
struction which will enable him to achieve additional competence
the following three principal directions:
1. A wider and a better understanding of the Word of God
and a deeper consecration to its Gospel, and by it to its Law,
for the sake of Christ, the Savior.
2. A wider and deeper understanding of man in society, for
whom the Word is intended.
3. The cultivation of knowledge, skills, and attitudes which
will facilitate his competence in bringing together the Word
and man.

r Beyond this the senior college curriculum must not go. But
Bor suc these. purposes the curriculum might well make provision

Religion Hebrew Philosophy
Church History German Education
Latin Social Sciences Psychology
Greek English and Literature

. Somewhat later in this report, the Board for Higher Education
LD esents a specific recommendation covering the method of devel-