Communication Studies and Honors Education
Shape Culture with Truth, Trust and Connection
In a world driven by stories, ideas and relationships, it is vital that you cultivate the ability to communicate with clarity, courage and conviction. Pairing your communication major with Torrey Honors allows you to cultivate expertise in connecting people and ideas — preparing you to lead ethically, influence redemptively and serve the common good across industries like media, business, non-profits and beyond.
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Excellence in Craft and Practice
Whether your concentration is Communication Studies, Digital Journalism and Media, or Public Relations, you’ll hone core skills in writing, storytelling, media ethics, persuasion and strategy. Torrey Honors deepens your craft with intellectual rigor and Christ-centered virtue.
Communication Studies
A Hands-On Approach to Communication Studies
As a communication studies student in Torrey Honors, you’ll be constantly improving your ability to communicate. Watch communication theories come to life each week as you contribute to discussion-based classes. Delve into the rhetoric of formative thinkers like Aristotle and Martin Luther King Jr. Practice listening actively, promoting constructive dialogue, navigating ideological conflict, and persuading others towards the truth. You won’t just become a more adept communicator. You’ll become a thoughtful, charitable leader.
Digital Journalism and Media
Truth-Telling for the Common Good
As a digital journalism and media student, you’ll learn to love and seek the truth. You’ll strengthen your skills of logic and clear-minded thinking, learning how to ask good questions and dig for the truth no matter where your search leads. You’ll also practice writing with greater clarity and power so that the truth you uncover and share does the greatest good.
Public Relations
Build Trust and Lead with Virtue
Every industry depends on relationships of trust and reciprocity. When your leadership and strategic communication are rooted in a love for virtue, you advance your ability to build bridges between organizations and the people they serve. Your education in public relations and Torrey Honors will prompt you to explore questions with wisdom and integrity, uniquely equipping you to excel in a field that requires strong communication, ethical thinking and creative leadership.
Why Pair Communication and Torrey Honors?
Interdisciplinary Thinking for Complex Challenges
In Torrey Honors, you’ll cultivate formation and vocation within a Christ-centered community. Pursuing goodness, truth and beauty through Scripture and great thinkers will deepen your vocational calling as a communicator, rooted in loving God and neighbor. You’ll strengthen your professional expertise and ability to analyze media, discern narratives and communicate truth in complex cultural contexts.
Influence for the Good of Others
Torrey Honors students explore how the gospel impacts narrative, ethics, public persuasion and community-building. Pursuing answers to complex questions together through reading and discussion will refine your ability to creatively solve problems, effectively collaborate with others, listen empathetically and use your platform to elevate voices that need to be heard.
Professional and Career Preparation
Whether you’re crafting original research, wrestling with weighty questions, or pursuing career opportunities, you’ll find committed mentors and a supportive community in both Communication and Torrey Honors. With this unique integration of theory, skill and practice, you will be ready for »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ programs and rewarding careers in media, nonprofit work, ministry, law, business, psychology, academia and more.
“My education and experience in Biola’s Public Relations program and Torrey Honors taught me that I value holistic thinking and planning. As a communication and experiential marketing consultant, I’ve learned that it is important for me to have a holistic picture of the organizations and personal brands of my clients in order to give my best work, skills I learned in the program. Torrey also taught me to not be afraid to challenge my peers, be more confident with my voice and opinions and bring diverse perspectives to my group.â€
"Torrey pushed me, challenged me, forced me to think deeper and harder in a world of 60-second packages and 5-second soundbites and 24-hour news cycles. I was constantly blown away by the thoughtfulness and intelligence of my peers and professors; I was stretched almost until my head hurt in our discussions."
“Communication is an in-demand skill because while culture and technology change the way we communicate, the need for familiarity and connection remains the same. Communication professionals thrive when they are both adaptable and anchored. A great education will do that, and I know of none better than the Communication Studies / Torrey Honors education I received.â€