WLC expanding curriculum
Filed Under: Wisconsin Lutheran College, WLC
Wisconsin Lutheran College (WLC), Milwaukee, is creating a School of Adult and Graduate Studies and adding six new majors to its undergraduate curriculum.
The School of Adult and Graduate Studies will have two components: one for adults looking to return to school to complete an undergraduate degree and the other to offer graduate degrees in education initially, and business eventually. Degree completion courses for adults could begin as early as this fall, and graduate courses in education will start in January 2010.
College administrators see a twofold purpose in expanding offerings for adults: to create new opportunities to reach out with the gospel to students enrolled in the program and to help secure the strength and future viability of the college.
The six new majors include China Studies, Environmental Studies, Media Design, Sport and Exercise Science, and Human Social Services. These majors are being added without the addition of new full-time faculty.
"As we expand our majors, focus on enrollment growth, and create a School of Adult and Graduate Studies, we do so under the core banner of Christian leadership," says Dr. Daniel Johnson, WLC president. "Recognizing that our communities and country desperately need Christian leaders, we are poised to launch our leadership initiatives forward, weaving their tenets throughout our undergraduate, and now graduate, programs."
WLC is a private liberal arts college in Milwaukee with an enrollment of 750 students. It is affiliated with WELS, but not financially supported by the synod's operating budget. All faculty are members of WELS or ELS congregations. For more information, visit www.wlc.edu.
