{"id":236655,"date":"2026-04-06T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:43:09","slug":"moody-college-of-communication-announces-3-new-minors-open-to-all-students-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236655\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody College of Communication announces 3 new minors, open to all students \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moody<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Moody College of Communication unveiled three new minors in digital game industries, advertising and radio-television-film, open for enrollment in the fall semester of 2026, according to March news releases earlier this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The three minors will be open to all students across the University, regardless of major or college. Advertising and radio-television-film are Moody\u2019s two most popular majors, said Cassandre Giguere Alvarado, Moody senior associate dean. Their corresponding minors were created to address the high demand, while the digital game industries minor was established to organize and complement classes Moody already offers, Alvarado said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that communication skills are the number one skill in demand by employers right now,\u201d Alvarado said. \u201cWe want to help and assist any student who\u2019s interested in studying communication and building their own skills to have that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Bays, radio-television-film associate professor and director of the Karch Gaming Institute, said the digital game industries minor will center around the upcoming \u201cVideo Games: Concept to Console\u201d course, set to launch alongside the minor. The class will feature guest speakers from all facets of the gaming industry, including writers, animators, programmers and producers, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a great appetite for guests because I\u2019m able to create this program and provide a structure for conversations to happen,\u201d Bays said. \u201cThe best thing is to just get out of the way and \u2026 let that person talk about their area of expertise.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bays said the student response to the increase in video game courses has been \u201cheartening.\u201d He said now is an \u201cexciting time\u201d to introduce the minor, because of gaming\u2019s increasing accessibility in the modern market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe rolled out our business and video games course, and it was just instantly 65 people signed up for that first course,\u201d Bays said. \u201cClearly, the students were really, really interested in it. That\u2019s a great honor, but also it feels like a great responsibility.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new radio-television-film minor will consist of five types of classes: storytelling, fundamentals of filmmaking, fundamentals of producing film and television, and two film history courses. Cindy McCreery, the radio-television-film department chair, said these classes will give a \u201cbroad overview\u201d of the major, and are \u201cperfect\u201d for students who want to get a taste of filmmaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of jobs in the business world that are related to media and film and television,\u201d McCreery said. \u201cIt\u2019s so connected to so many fields, even STEM related fields. It\u2019s not as outside the bubble of other areas as I think people think.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The radio-television-film department also offers a minor in media and industry and a separate minor in sports production and broadcasting, McCreery said. She said she encourages students to explore these minors if they have a \u201cnarrower\u201d media focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The advertising minor will begin with a \u201cfoundational course,\u201d and then students will have some flexibility in course options afterwards, Alvarado said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have students, for example, in English and rhetoric, who want to do copywriting and advertising, but who don\u2019t necessarily want to do a full advertising degree,\u201d Alvarado said. \u201c(The minor) opens up more of those combinations for students across the university.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Moody College of Communication unveiled three new minors in digital game industries, advertising and radio-television-film, open for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-236655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}