[Lutheran Concordia College Faculty Meetings Minutes, 1952-1954] Page: 75 of 77
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assignments of a shorter type and one research paper, be a requisite in
the freshman year.
The sophomore year requirement in English, offered unfortunately at only
two of our junior colleges, is the invaluable course in World Literature,
given three hours in the first semester and two hours in the second.
THE DIVISION OF LANGUAGES
GERMAN - It is the considered opinion of our faculty that German is
not as necessary as it was in past generations, since our
Church at home is almost entirely English speaking, and
since it is international in scope abroad. Also, the theo-
logical writings of Reformation times and the most important
writings of the early Missouri Synod era have reached us
in excellent translations. Presupposing two units in the
high school from our graduates and a five hour course for
three year junior college men (who receive high school
credit for the same and yet accomplish the equivalent of
two years of high school work), our faculty proposes a
three hour course in the second semester of the freshman
year and a two hour course entitled Theological German,
stressing terms and devotional literature particularly,
in the second semester of the sophomore year.
LATIN - In agreement with the Curriculum Commission our faculty
suggests two hours of Latin as a prerequisite for those
entering the junior college. Three year men take a five
hour course, again receiving high school credit but cover-
ing the equivalent of two years of high school work. The
junior college offerings would include three hours of
Medieval Latin in the first semester of the freshman year,
followed in the second semester by three hours of Latin
stressing Confessional writings of Reformation times.
GREEK- Again in agreement with the Curriculum Commission our
faculty suggests that Greek be dropped in the high school
department and that the stress in the college be on KOINE
Greek. We feel reasonably certain that twelve hours in
the junior college is superfluous if classical Greek is
dropped. Accordingly, we suggest that six hours be distri-
buted in the two semesters of the sophomore college year.
This could lay the foundation for two courses in the Senior
College stressing rapid reading of the Greek New Testament.
THE DIVISION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Emphasis in the field of the social sciences seems overbalanced, if not
altogether top-heavy, on the part of the Curriculum Commission. Many of
the offerings would follow as a natural result of individual perspective
development through extensive reading and the application of better-than-
average common sense.
In line with such aforementioned conclusions our faculty suggests a course
in Western Civilittion beginning with Gredrne and covering six semester
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