122 Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities To earn Departmental Honors in Communication, a student WILL: 1. Earn a cumulative GPA of 3.5 and a GPA of 3.7 in the major. 2. Complete COMM 4990 - Senior Seminar with a grade of Aon both the portfolio and thesis. 3. 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. 4. 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. Although not required, students are ENCOURAGED: • To join a professional association, such as Public Relations Society 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. • To actively engage in a communication student organization, such as the Signpost, WSU News, KWCR radio station, the Forensics team, Lambda Pi Eta (the national undergraduate communication honor society for communication), etc. Department of English Language and Literature Department Chair: Kathleen Herndon Location: Elizabeth Hall, Room 413 Telephone Contact: Kimberly Webb 801-626-6251 Professors: James Russell Burrows, Shannon Butler, Hal Crimmel, Gary Dohrer, Judith Elsley, Kathleen Herndon, Mark LeTourneau, Becky Jo McShane, Karen Marguerite Moloney, Victoria Ramirez, John Schwiebert, Sally Bishop Shigley, Mahalingam Subbiah, Mikel Vause, Michael Wutz, James E. Young; Associate Professors: Timothy Conrad, Susan McKay, Scott Rogers, Shelley Thomas; Assistant Professor: Sian Griffiths; Instructors: Toni Asay, Christy Call, Giana Curtis, Ronald Deeter, Jan Hamer, Kyra Hudson, Brooke Kelly, Becky Marchant, Sylvia Newman, Holly Nicholes, Mark Peterson, William Pollett, Amy Reimann, Deborah Sheridan, Gail Yngve The Department of English Language and Literature offers a broad spectrum of language, literature and writing courses. English majors and minors, English teaching majors and minors, English majors with professional and technical writing emphasis and professional and technical writing minors, and English majors with creative writing emphasis, in consultation with English department advisors, can select programs individually designed to satisfy academic requirements. Furthermore, students preparing for careers in law, medicine, business, public relations and government service may find departmental courses highly beneficial. The English Department has also designed courses for the general student in introductory and intermediate writing. Students transferring to Weber State as English majors, with most of their junior and senior status completed, are required to take a minimum of 9 upper division credit hours, minors a minimum of 6 upper division credit hours. This requirement also applies to transfer graduate students. English Composition Requirement Students seeking the Associate of Applied Science degree must pass ENGL 1010 with a "C" grade (2.0) or better in order to satisfy the composition requirement. Students seeking any other degree must successfully complete ENGL 2010 with a grade of "C" or higher. Students placed in developmental English courses ENGL 0900 and ENGL 0955 must also pass those courses with grades of "C" or higher. Please note that English composition courses, whether developmental or not, are sequential and can not be taken out of numerical order. Successful completion of ENGL 2010 with a grade of C or better satisfies the University core requirement for Composition. Entrance into ENGL 2010 can be accomplished in the following ways: 1) passing ENGL 1010 with a grade of C or better, 2) passing the AP language and composition or Literature and composition examination with a score of 3 or better, 3) achieving an ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, 4) a CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or 5) articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university. English Placement Students are placed in the English developmental/ composition sequence of courses either by ACT sub-scores or by Accuplacer scores. ACT Sub-scores* Accuplacer Scores Course Placement ACT English and Reading sub-score 29 or higher Not Applicable ENGL 2010 ACT English and Reading sub-scores both 17 or above Reading Co mprehension and Sentence Skills scores both 90 or above ENGL 1010 Lowest ACT English or Reading score from 13-16 Lowest Reading Comprehension or Sentence Skill score from 40-89 ENGL 0955 or referred to the ESL office for non-native English speakers Lowest ACT English or Reading score 12 or below Lowest Reading Comprehension or Sentence Skill score 39 or below ENGL 0900 or referred to the ESL office for non-native English speakers "ACT scores in English and Reading expire after 2 years. ENGL 0960 does not satisfy the Developmental English Requirement for students admitted to Weber State University after Fall Semester 2005. Students admitted after Fall Semester 2005 who take ENGL 0960 will still be required to take ENGL 0900 and/or ENGL 0955, depending on their English placement. International students who meet the University's TOEFL and IELTS requirements for admission are cleared to register for ENGL 1010. International students who do not meet the University's TOEFL or IELTS requirements for admission and resident students for whom English is a second language who score Weber State University 2012-2013 Catalog