Pursue your future in Communications and Fine Arts
Creativity shapes culture. Whether you’re on stage, behind the camera, or crafting stories that move people to action, you’ll find a place to grow as a communicator, artist, and thinker. These programs stretch your skills, sharpen your message and help you pursue your purpose with clarity and voice.
These programs stretch your skills, sharpen your message and help you pursue your purpose with clarity and voice.
Connect.
PROGRAM LISTING
Degrees and Programs in Communications and Fine Arts
From journalism and digital media to music, design, and performance, these undergraduate and graduate programs train you to create with intention and connect with meaning. You’ll learn by doing—refining your craft through studio time, rehearsal, critique, and collaboration—while exploring where your creativity can take you.
Conversations With Faculty in this Pathway
Faculty from Ashland’s Communications & Fine Arts pathway on mentorship, real creative work, and what students discover about themselves in the process.
STUDENT IMPACT
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“A digital media journalism major at Ashland let me explore both and share my experience with others in new, compelling ways. Before choosing Ashland, I toured a lot of schools. But nowhere else felt right until I stepped foot on campus.”
Gracie Wilson, Alum
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“As a digital media production major, I’ve been impressed with the professors, the tv and radio station, and the program as a whole. I transferred to Ashland because I’ve always enjoyed media, and my experience here has been great!”
Gage Eldridge, Alum
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“A key moment in my Ashland experience was when, near the end of our senior year, nine of us were setting up for our last art exhibition. We kind of looked across the gallery at each other and this realization just hit us simultaneously. It was part relief, knowing we were almost done. This was right before, thanks to a posting at AU, I would get a job painting carousels, which took me all over the world.”
Jennifer Winkler, Alum
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“Fraternity life had never been in my plans, but after a friend of mine convinced me to attend a Fraternity interest night, I found a real community. After rushing Phi Psi, I made an instant bond with some of the guys who introduced me to the radio station and AU TV 20. That love of film and journalism has set me on the path I’m currently walking. The stereotypes about Fraternity life just don’t apply here at Ashland. It’s about friendship and making those connections that last a lifetime.”
Jake Rayman, Alum
Experience how learning comes to life.
These videos offer a first look into the ideas, questions and moments that spark learning at Ashland. Taught by our own faculty, each Pathway Lab give you a taste of how purpose begins—in a concept that clicks, a challenge that stretches you or a subject that inspires you to want to know more.
Step into what’s next.
Your future doesn’t begin someday. Now it’s time to take the next step toward a path that’s personal, purposeful and ready for you.
