 Do you want to motivate and inspire people? Is poetry your creative outlet? Do you want to deepen your connection to other cultures? Your voice is an instrument of influence. It can be used to motivate, bring people together, and to change minds. Communication that inspires, entertains, and informs is a key skill that employers want in this competitive economy and increasingly diverse society. Communication, talking to people is what I love to do and talking to people is what I want to do. So I think anybody can be successful if their desire to succeed is greater than their fear of, like, failing. With a communication studies degree, you can find opportunities as an influencer, motivational speaker, lawyer, human and public relations, communications manager, corporate training, and event planning and management. The salary ranges from 60,000 to 100,000 plus. I chose communications because I didn't exactly know specifically what I wanted to do. I also love the versatility of communications. Like, there's so many different ways or things that you can do within communications and it's nice because for me, not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, it provided a lot of different avenues that I could go down. Studying English is a wide open path. Words are a powerful thing. They influence people and that can instigate change in the world. At Highline, we have an award winning literary journal, our tourist 2021 that students, staff and faculty create. It is filled with poetry, stories, essays, photos and artwork. Do you really want to improve your writing? Learn how to get strangers to tell you their darkest secrets? Journalism provides students with skills to do research and write clearly and quickly. Journalism teaches you how to develop interview skills and how to organize your writing so you can say what you want to say and be clearly understood. At Highline, you can work in our student newspaper, The Thunder Word, to get experience with a publication. A degree in journalism can lead to jobs in print, online and broadcast media and can be a great help in graduate school in many fields. Whether you want to be on sports center or you just want to write like a pro, this is a program for you. I love that I get to be with people from various disciplines. I also love knowing that design is more than just knowing how to create something. But it's about knowing that you can have such an impact on someone through your design. I would say just do it because design is everywhere. You can easily find something that will suit you and a world without design is like a peacock without its feathers. We experience art around us every day. It's everywhere, always changing. You can be a working artist. There is so much money to be made in art right now. Degrees in interior design prepare students to enter both residential and commercial design fields. Multimedia design will teach you how to use a variety of mediums to create promotional videos, brochures, web design and interactive presentations. Our visual communications program offers the fundamentals of graphic design so that you can develop creative solutions for branding and visual identity in many realms. Our world language program offers American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Latin, Japanese and Spanish. Bilingual jobs are on the rise. Learning a new language will open up a whole new world and careers to explore like translator, interpreter, immigration officer or teacher. What I love about design is that I'm able to utilize like all these technical skills but then have a creative sense in it. Like even though I'm making, for example, like an instant noodle package, I still have some type of control in the way I want it to look and still thinking about the persona or the person I'm trying to sell it to, for example. But it's really cool to see what I can create using all these different applications that I never knew I could do. And I think that's what I especially love about it. Highline's newest bachelor's of applied science degree in integrated design takes a holistic approach to design by combining passion for visual design technology and problem solving with accessibility, equity and universal design. I really love that we have this really big focus on human centered design. So all the things we're creating, it's not just for the sake of creating it, it's to solve a problem that a certain audience has. And I think that's really fulfilling because you're not just creating things for yourself. So that's what I like about our program is like we use all the different disciplines, combine them together and then we solve a problem. This degree integrates the threads of design philosophy, design technique and equitable design for global community. The bachelor's degree is a wonderful way to apply an AAS degree toward a deeper level of design expertise. Become a part of the next generation of forward thinking designers. Whether you're a new student or like if you're like me, a transfer student, do what you can to build community. It's really the difference between being that car to class, class to car student and the person who has a really life changing experience. The art and design communication pathway at Highline is full of possibilities for you to build your creative and communication skills.