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
- Take CSD 235: Introduction to CSD
| - Support your peers by attending ACU's URCI Festival
- Explore the message of the Old Testament in BIBL 211
- Take interprofessional education (IPE) classes
| - Engage in a faculty-mentored research or creative project
- Participate in an information literacy workshop
- Participate in IPE activities
- Volunteer with King David’s Kids (KDK)
| - Present at URCI Festival or other conference
- Complete your Capstone course
- Complete Capstone research paper with a CSD focus
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| Spiritual | - Experience Candlelight Devo during Wildcat Week
- Participate in Chapel, including department chapel
- Participate in the life of a local church
- Engage in practices of meal fellowship, testimony and breath prayer
| - 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
- 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 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 your results
- Become involved in the ACU community by joining a student organization
- Make contact with your assigned CSD mentor
- Care for your whole person by developing a Personal Exercise Prescription
- Grow as a leader through ACU LEADS: Emerging Leaders
| - Take advantage of recreation opportunities on campus (Rec Center, intramurals, etc)
- Actively engage in a student organization
| - Develop your leadership skills while serving in a leadership role on campus
- 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
Identify a minister outside of ACU who might serve as a professional mentor
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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
- Explore opportunities with Hope Speaks (Uganda)
| - Attend events hosted by the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action
- Participate in a World Wide Witness summer internship
Apply to participate in Hope Speaks (Uganda)
| - Apply to Fulbright, AmeriCorps, PeaceCorps or International Service Opportunity
- 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 Create U
- Join ACU National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA)
| - Develop a resume and participate in a mock interview with Career Services
- Apply to the CSD major
- Get a CSD-related summer job or internship
- Join ACU National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) and the Texas Speech Language Hearing Association (TSHA)
- Consider attending TSHA convention
| - Research graduate schools that interest you
- Identify faculty members who could write recommendations
- Create a LinkedIn profile
- Continue with NSSLHA and TSHA
Attend TSHA convention and visit graduate schools
| - Finalize a resume
- Secure letters of recommendation
- Apply for jobs and/or graduate school
- Continue with NSSLHA and TSHA
- Attend TSHA convention
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