February 9, 2000
Southern changes music curriculum
___LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--A "praise and worship" curriculum will be added to the offerings of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's School of Church Music and Worship, administrators announced last week.
___Chief among the changes will be a new structure to the music school, which will have three divisions--the academy of music, the institute of praise and worship and the conservatory of church music.
___The academy of music will provide music instruction for seminary community families as well as families in the Louisville area. It also will provide training and supervision for music majors in the James P. Boyce College of the Bible, the seminary's undergraduate arm.
___The institute of praise and worship will emphasize worship leadership through various courses of study. In addition to the master of divinity in worship and the master of divinity in church music degrees, the school will launch a new master of arts in worship, which will be a 48-hour degree.
___Though other areas of Southern Seminary's curriculum, faculty and structure have undergone massive change since conservative trustees elected Al Mohler as seminary president in 1993, the seminary's highly regarded music school has experienced little change until now.
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