Majors and Minors

Communication & Arts Majors

Art

Is expression your passion? Do you admire how skillfully creativity can be used to seek truth, depict beauty, conjure fiction, and uncover ugliness? Or are you driven by your own desire to create, to make the next work so unique that we don’t yet have words to describe it?
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Arts Management

Through a major in arts management, you'll learn to take your passion for self-expression and merge it with enterprise. The major shows you how to synthesize an understanding of theatre, music, or the fine arts with business skills to help art find an audience and thrive commercially.
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Communications Studies

The ability to effectively communicate is among the most widely applicable life and career skills you can develop. It can help you land a job and keep it. It can help you advance your career and maintain personal relationships. All that we do conveys important information about ourselves to others. Learning to carefully consider and craft the messages we send is of paramount importance in the information age.
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Corporate Communication

Communication skills: you use them in the first handshake and when issuing a financial report for shareholders. They are important to closing deals, establishing partnerships, handling crises, and sharing your services with the public. Whatever position you hold, businesses rely on people who can get their points across effectively and accurately.
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Digital Media

Contemporary life is a whirlwind of information. You can tune in, log on, switch to, or pick up ideas and art and designs just about anywhere. Media is culture – and it’s everywhere. As you read, watch and listen, take note: it could be you reporting live, taking the next important picture, writing an award-winning article (or blog), or editing the next great viral video sensation.
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English

Who wrote your favorite book? What was compelling about the writer's ability to describe a situation or bring a personality to life? Perhaps you feel driven to write yourself, capturing your thoughts and the world around you in words and phrases, written and spoken. As an English major, you’ll learn how to increase the effectiveness of your self-expression as you develop composition skills for professional success and a literary background for personal fulfillment.
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Graphic Design & Visual Communication

To be a successful visual designer, talent and passion are musts, but they aren’t all you’ll need. As a graphic design & visual communication major, you’ll develop your artistic abilities alongside your skills in corporate communication and media studies. You’ll learn both how to produce graphic art and apply it to a career.
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Music

For some people, music is their joy and passion. For others, it’s their livelihood. Whether conducting an orchestra, playing in a band, leading a classroom or selecting an iPod playlist, there are many ways in which music forms an important part of life’s rhythms. Studying it in-depth at BVU allows you to hone your talents as part of a supportive community of talented students and professors.
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Music Production and Technology

You don’t just listen to music, you stream it. You beam it to your car by satellite, shuffle it on your iPod, and maybe even spin it on classic vinyl. To call it just ‘music’ seems limiting: audio today includes remixes, podcasts, and compositions made entirely with – and sometimes even written by – computers. That’s good news if you want to make music your career: you can do on a home computer today what decades ago would have required signing with a label. It’s never been easier to make quality music and help it find an audience.
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Spanish

Spanish has more native speakers worldwide than any other language except Mandarin, including nearly 35 million in the United States. Being able to communicate with it can help your business reach out to growing segments of the population and enable you to better connect with the community around you.
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Theatre

The lights go down. A crowd falls silent. For a moment, you can hear everyone breathe in. Not just the audience in their seats but the actors backstage waiting to enter stage left; the crew on the catwalks high above the proscenium; and the light and sound techs in the booths at the back of the house. It’s the excitement of a performance about to begin. What part would you like to play in creating that feeling?
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Communication & Arts Minors

Art

Art History

The courses that form the art history minor provide focused study in major figures and movements over the centuries, from the Pre-Historic through the Renaissance to the Baroque and Modern.
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Communication Studies

Digital Media

Contemporary life is a whirlwind of information. You can tune in, log on, switch to, or pick up ideas and art and designs just about anywhere. Media is culture – and it's everywhere. As you read, watch and listen, take note: it could be you reporting live, taking the next important picture, writing an award-winning article (or blog), or editing the next great viral video sensation.
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English

Who wrote your favorite book? What was compelling about the writer's ability to describe a situation or bring a personality to life? Perhaps you feel driven to write yourself, capturing your thoughts and the world around you in words and phrases, written and spoken. As an English student, you’ll learn how to increase the effectiveness of your self-expression as you develop composition skills for professional success and a literary background for personal fulfillment.
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Graphic Design & Visual Communication

To be a successful visual designer, talent and passion are musts, but they aren’t all you’ll need. As a graphic design & visual communication student, you’ll develop your artistic abilities alongside your skills in corporate communication and media studies. You’ll learn both how to produce graphic art and apply it to a career.
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Modern Langauge

In addition to a Spanish major and minor, Buena Vista University offers language instruction using a combination of on-campus offerings and exchange programs. Languages offered in this form are Chinese, German, and Japanese.
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Music

Whether conducting an orchestra, playing in a band, leading a classroom or selecting an iPod playlist, there are many ways in which music forms an important part of life’s rhythms. Studying it in-depth at BVU allows you to hone your talents as part of a supportive community of talented students and professors.
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Music Production & Technology

Spanish

Theatre

School of Communication & Arts
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Majors and Minors
Creative Opportunities
Art and Graphic Design
Communication Studies
Digital Media
English
Foreign Languages
Music
Theatre
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