Add some prestige to your diploma and resume: Earn Departmental Honors in Communication
Benefits of Departmental Honors
- Be recognized with the Communication Departmental Honors designation on your official transcript and diploma.
- Receive a personalized letter signed by the Weber State University president and the university’s Honors director.
- Receive invitations to Honors educational and social events and to the Honors Nye-Cortez banquet at the end of the academic year.
To Earn Departmental Honors, You Must:
- Earn a cumulative GPA of 3.5 and a GPA of 3.7 in the major.
- Complete Comm 4990 Senior Seminar with a grade of A on both the portfolio and thesis.
- Present a paper or product in a professional setting such as WSU’s undergraduate research symposium, Utah Communication Association, Western States Communication Association, or a regional broadcasting or journalism conference.
- Attend at least one Honors activity (Issues Forum, Food for Thought, or service or social activity) each year after being accepted into the Honors program.
- Join a professional association such as Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), National Broadcasting Society (NBS), Broadcast Education Association (BEA), etc.
- Actively engage in a communication student organization such as The Signpost, WSU News, KWCR radio station, the Forensics team, Lambda Pi Eta (national undergraduate communication honor society for communication), etc.
- Complete the application for Departmental Honors and submit it to the Honors Program (third floor of the Stewart Library).
- Visit with Marilyn Diamond, the Honors adviser, to be cleared for graduation with Departmental Honors.
Join Student Organizations and Professional Associations
- Join a professional association such as Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), National Broadcasting Society (NBS), Broadcast Education Association (BEA), etc.
- Actively engage in a communication student organization such as The Signpost, WSU News, KWCR radio station, the Forensics team, Lambda Pi Eta (national undergraduate communication honor society for communication), etc.
To Apply for Departmental Honors
- Complete the application for Departmental Honors and submit it to the Honors Program (third floor of the Stewart Library).
- Visit with Marilyn Diamond, the Honors adviser, to be cleared for graduation with Departmental Honors.
Contact Information
Marilyn Diamond
Honors Advisor
801-626-7336
mdiamond@weber.edu
Susan Hafen
Communication professor
801-626-8129
shafen@weber.edu
Erik Stern
Honors director
801-626-6615
estern@weber.edu
Graduates with Departmental Honors
- Morgen Weeks, 2012
- Jared Hyde, 2012
- Maria Hein, 2011
- Brett Hein, 2011
- Kamri West, 2011
- Brenda Cottrell, 2010
- Madelyn Jones, 2009