Begin Your Journey | First Year
Pursue Community | Second Year
Pursue Hospitality | Third Year
Pursue Calling | Fourth Year
Pursue Wisdom |
| Grow Intellectually | - Meet department faculty during Wildcat Week
- Create a CJ-related bibliography in Cornerstone
- Explore the life of Jesus and the New Testament church in BIBL 101 and 102
- Explore departmental minors (e.g., public service, legal studies, political science)
| - Support your peers by attending ACU’s URCI Festival
- Explore the message of the Old Testament in BIBL 211
- Attend meetings about scholarly and graduate opportunities
- Gain a variety of perspectives by helping host alumni or guest speakers
- Apply for the Jack Pope Fellows Program
| - Engage in a faculty-mentored research or creative project
- Participate in an information literacy workshop
- Develop your research skills by completing POLS 315: Research Methods
- Apply for a major scholarship
| - Present at URCI Festival or other conference
- Complete Capstone course POLC 499: Public Service Internship
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| Grow Spiritually | - Experience Candlelight Devo during Wildcat Week
- Participate in Chapel, including Department Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Complete a Weekend Campaign or Spring Break Service Trip
- Engage in practices of meal fellowship and testimony
| - Participate in Chapel, including Department Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Learn about service opportunities at the Local Missions Fair
- Volunteer in the Abilene community
- Engage in practices of intercessory prayer, pilgrimage and journaling
| - Participate in Chapel, including Department Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Gain hands-on ministry experience on a Global Service Trip
- Attend Summit to explore your vocational path
- Engage in practices of silence, spiritual listening and examen
| - Participate in Chapel, including Department Chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Receive and extend blessings at the Department BBQ and Senior Blessing
- Experience Candlelight Sendoff
- Study ethical behavior in criminal justice in POLC 455: Ethics
- Engage in practices of friendship, relinquishment and developing a rule of life
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| Grow Personally | - Take StrengthsFinder and reflect on your results
- Become involved in the ACU community by joining a student organization
- Identify a potential faculty, staff or older student mentor in the department
- Care for your whole person by developing a Personal Exercise Prescription
| - Take advantage of recreation opportunities on campus (Rec Center, intramurals, etc.)
- Actively engage in a student organization
- Develop personal relationships within your department by sharing a meal with peers in a Professor’s home
| - Serve in a leadership role on campus through ACU Leads
- Lead in a church ministry or local service organization
| - Serve in a leadership role and mentor future student leaders
- Lead a student club or organization
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| Grow Culturally | - 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 - Expand your cultural knowledge by taking a foreign language course
| - Attend events hosted by the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action
- Participate in a World Wide Witness summer internship
Volunteer or intern with International Rescue Committee
| - Apply to Fulbright, AmeriCorps or International Service Opportunity
- Lead an OMA, ISA or Carl Spain Center event
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| Grow Professionally | - Activate your Handshake profile and take the Career Explorer Inventory through ACU’s Career Services
- Learn new creative possibilities through Creative U
- Create a resume and discuss your career plan with a professor
| - Update your résumé and participate in a mock interview with Career Services
- Get a summer job or internship related to your field of interest
- Identify ACU alumni in your career field of interest
| - Research jobs and graduate schools that interest you
- Identify faculty members who could write recommendations
- Create a LinkedIn profile
Prepare for LSAT and/or GRE - Meet with a professor to discuss internship, career path and post-graduate opportunities
| - Finalize your résumé
- Secure letters of recommendation
- Apply for law enforcement academies, jobs and/or graduate school
- Participate in a department-sponsored mock interview
- Complete first destination survey
- Take LSAT and/or GREs
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