Minor in Communication

Overview

ACU’s Communication Major program prepares students for life by training them to be persons of influence, teaching skills for a variety of communication situations and career fields: writing and speaking, media producing and content creation, family and relationships, and more. The Minor in Communication allows students to pick 18 units of coursework in Communication areas of most interest to them.

Why Communication at ACU?

In addition to a faculty to student ratio of 17:1 and a rigorous and biblically-integrated curriculum, ACU’s Communication program offers several unique advantages:

• The skills taught in the Communication program have great transferability and applicability to a wide variety of job fields.
• ACU offers the opportunity to explore and understand today’s mediated world and how the Christian faith can inform one’s response to it.
• Students have access to learn and use multimedia equipment as early as their freshman year.
• Through the program’s partnership with different university departments, students get real-world opportunities, such as creating marketing content or producing livestream chapel programs.

What will I study?

The Communication program provides with an innovative approach to general studies that reclaims a Christian conception of the Liberal Arts, preparing students to be influential thinkers. Career-related focus areas include:

• Video Editing/Content Creation
• Visual Storytelling/Filmmaking
• Public Relations
• Strategic Communication
• Graduate School Prep
• News Writing
• Reporting/Blogging
• Media Law