Develop Your Creative Talents to Tell God's Story
The Bachelor of Arts in Communications program will provide you with outstanding instruction and diverse opportunities where you can master your creative talents. You will grow both spiritually and professionally as you combine your rich Bible and theology training with your media skills.
The Moody BA in Communications is an integrated media arts program, allowing more than 200 students the flexibility to train across multiple mediums and the opportunity to dive deep in their chosen discipline.
Courses are offered in the following areas of communications:
- Writing, publishing, and journalism
- Speech and performance
- Video production
- Radio and audio production
- Organizational communications and media strategies
- Visual design and photography
On our Chicago campus, you will join a distinctively collaborative, creative community! No other Christian college offers communications training in partnership with two renowned Christian media outlets: Moody Publishers and Moody Radio. Our students regularly rub shoulders with and learn from our professional colleagues—resulting in mentorship, internships, and even entry-level employment.
Here’s How We’ll Prepare You for Ministry
This degree is accredited by the following institutions, giving you further confidence in a Moody education.
Association for Biblical Higher Education
Higher Learning Commission
Practicums
The engine of our Communications program is our media practicum teams. These student-led, faculty-advised teams produce exciting professional-level work each year. Every communications student is required to spend at least one semester on a practicum team. Many students extend their practicum involvement for a full year or more.
These are our current practicum teams:
- Literary: ARCH Yearbook and Thin Space Art and Theology Journal
- Journalism: Halide Journal
- Performance: The Veil Theater
- Video: Short Film, Documentary, Live Event, and Video Content
- Audio: XN Radio and XN Records
- Agency: Creative Agency and Common Publishing platform
You will enjoy our new next-generation educational ministry media lab with studios and spaces for you to practice video and audio recording and editing, podcasting, radio broadcasting, visual design, live performance, and more. This global center for theological creativity, community, and imagination is ready and waiting for you!
Your Career Paths and Ministry Opportunities
When you graduate, you’ll have a professional portfolio and access to an extensive global network of ministry partners eager to hire theologically sound, practically trained, and creatively gifted storytellers like you. You can prepare to launch a purposeful career as a:
- Graphic designer
- Photographer
- Writer
- Radio host
- Videographer
- Speaker or actor
- Media firm manager
Our Communications alumni are writing books, producing videos, and designing media for churches and missions agencies. Some have taken their camera around the world. Others are freelancing and creating their own media firms. From the smallest local church to the largest media giants, our graduates work with companies to creatively, passionately, and persuasively tell God’s story!
“Being on the journalism team gave me opportunities to practice what I was learning, engage more fully in Chicago, and work on a creative team. It also was instrumental in me landing my first full-time job as a writer at Seed Company, a Bible translation organization. If you have a heart to serve Christ’s global church, I can't imagine a better fit than Moody. I continue to use the storytelling principles I learned through the Communications program in my job.”
Life at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago
Here on our Chicago campus, you’ll live in an uplifting, faithful community alongside your classmates, faculty, and mentors. You’ll also:
- Deepen your biblical knowledge in every class.
- Serve in real-life ministry and gain practical experience.
- Build lifelong relationships with other students through student groups, extracurricular activities, and numerous other opportunities.
- Grow spiritually as you pursue God’s calling on your life.
Meet Our Faculty
Brian Kammerzelt
Kelli Worrall
Robert M. Gustafson
Karyn Hecht
Jill M. White
Raychel McKelvy
Matthew Snyder
Bethany Paulsen
David Samuel
Classes that will Stretch and Equip You
As God’s people, we are called to use our gifts to build up the church and to tell His story to an unbelieving world. Learn how to communicate God’s truth with excellence and purpose in these dynamic, engaging courses:
Core Program Classes
- Introduction to Communications: Theory, History, and Ministry
- Media Practicum (Choose from literary, journalism, performance, creative agency, audio, and video media teams)
- Senior Seminar
- Ministry Internship
From the communication electives, students may choose—with their faculty advisor’s counsel—to train in multiple skills and mediums. Our integrated media arts model allows for great flexibility to customize the program to your gifts and calling.
Students may also choose to further train in a single discipline by selecting from one of the following pathways:
Student Support
