In the Middler year students learn to incorporate these principles and methods as they prepare Bible history and catechism lessons and youth and adult Bible classes. In one quarter of the Middler year students are involved in supervised classroom teaching in a Lutheran elementary school. In the Senior year the emphasis is on developing and administering a comprehensive program of education in the congregation. 2 hours Brenner, Zarling Educ. 3 hours Brenner, Gurgel, Zarling Educ.
Figures represent the number of class hours per week.
After completing the Middler year, all students are obligated to a full year of training as vicars in a congregation. This training is a part of the seminary curriculum and is administered under the supervision of the local pastor in collaboration with the seminary. Students receive their vicar assignments through the Assignment Committee of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod after they have been recommended for a vicarship by the faculty. In their senior year students may be engaged by congregations as part-time assistants through consultation with the seminary's director of student field services. The pastors of congregations to whom vicars have been assigned are expected to complete the seminary's vicarship report form and to return it to the seminary at the conclusion of the vicarship year.