Begin Your Journey | First Year
Pursue Community | Second Year
Pursue Hospitality | Third Year
Pursue Calling | Fourth Year
Pursue Wisdom |
| Intellectual | - Meet the faculty during Wildcat Week
- Develop research skills in Cornerstone
- Explore the life of Jesus and the New Testament church in BIBL 101 and 102
| - Support your peers by attending ACU's URCI Festival
- Explore the Old Testament in BIBL 211
- Learn all about CFS in FAM 251: Intro to Family Studies
| - Engage in a faculty-mentored research or creative project
- Participate in information literacy workshop
- Learn about couples and families in FAM 356: Sexuality & Intimacy and FAM 452: Parenting & Family Skills
| - Present at URCI Festival or other conference
- Complete your Capstone Course - FAM 485: Ethics
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| Spiritual | - Experience Candlelight Devo during Wildcat Week
- Participate in Chapel, including CFS Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Engage in practices of meal fellowship, testimony and breath prayer
| - Participate in Chapel, including CFS Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- earn about service opportunities at the Local Missions Fair
- Volunteer in the Abilene community
- Grow through the Brooks-Sullivan weekly Bible Study
- Engage in practices of intercessory prayer, pilgrimage and journaling
| - Participate in the life of a local church
- Gain hands-on ministry experience on a Global Service Trip
- Volunteer with a family-service organization
- Lead CFS Chapel
Engage in practices of silence, spiritual listening and examen
| - Participate in Chapel, including CFS Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Receive and extend blessings to others at Senior Blessing
- Experience Candlelight Sendoff
- Engage in practices of friendship, relinquishment and developing a rule of life
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| Personal | - Take StrengthsFinder and reflect on how your results
- Join a student organization
- Identify a potential faculty, staff or older student mentor in Child & Family Services
- Care for your whole person by developing a Personal Exercise Prescription
- Grow as a leader through ACU Leads
| - Take advantage of recreation opportunities on campus (Rec Center, intramurals, etc)
- Actively engage in a student organization
- Learn about your family through a genogram
| - Develop your leadership skills while serving in a leadership role on campus
- Lead in a church ministry or local service organization
| - Develop your leadership skills while serving in a leadership role and mentoring future student leaders
- Lead a student club or organization
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| Cultural | - Attend events hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA)
- Explore opportunities at a Study Abroad interest meeting
| - Attend events hosted by the International Students Association (ISA)
- Study abroad in Oxford, Leipzig or Montevideo
| - Attend Events hosted by the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action
- Participate in a World Wide Witness summer internship
| - Lead an OMA, ISA or Carl Spain Center event
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| Professional | - Activate your Handshake profile and take the Career Explorer Inventory through ACU’s Career Services
- Learn new creative possibilities through Creative U
| - Develop a résumé and participate in mock interview with Career Services
- Get a summer job or internship related to your field of interest
| - Research graduate schools that interest you
- Identify faculty members to write recommendations
- Create a LinkedIn Profile
- Identify and get approval for a field experience and/or practicum site
- Connect with professionals at TxCFR
- Explore career options at the MFT Open House
| - Finalize a résumé
- Secure letters of recommendation
- Apply for jobs and/or graduate school
- Gain field experience in FAM 495: Practicum
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