Honors: Virtus Tentamine Gaudet
The Department of Communication was the first department in the College of Fine and Applied Arts to offer an Honors Program. Students who demonstrate exceptional academic promise are invited into the honors program by the Honors Coordinator, Dr. Jean DeHart. The Department offers several classes each semester with an honors designation, that are limited to honors students. In these courses, the demands are higher, but so is the opportunity for advanced learning and excitement. Because after all, strength rejoices in challenge (for those of you who didn't take Latin).
For more information about ASU's various Honors Programs, visit the Heltzer Honors Program website.
Program Requirements
The Department of Communication offers a 15-hour honors program composed of 12 hours of classroom honors work (of which 9 hours must be in the Department of Communication) plus a 3-hour honors thesis. Disciplinary honors courses will be drawn from designated honors courses offered at the introductory, intermediate and advanced course levels in the department. To graduate with honors in communication, a student must be a major, have maintained an overall grade point average of 3.4, an overall Communication grade point average of 3.4, a grade no less than B in any honors designated courses and have completed a departmental honors thesis.
Honors Sections
Fall 2008 Honors Courses offered in the Department of Communication:
- COM 1200 Foundations of Human Communication; TR 11-12:15; WA 104; Dr. Joyce Wise Dodd
- COM 3533 Media Professionals Portrayed in Film; M 5-5:50, W 5-6:50; WA 214; Dr. Kay Taylor
