Department Honors

To earn Departmental Honors in Visual Arts and Design, you must:

• Be a declared BFA major
• Fulfill all the departmental requirements for a BFA, including:
  • Taking the BFA Seminar and then the BFA Thesis if your emphasis is 2D, 3D, or Photography. At least one semester must separate these two courses.
  • Taking the Design Seminar course if your emphasis is Visual Communications.
• Exhibit in a BFA show approved by the faculty or, if your emphasis is Visual Communications, participate in the Portfolio Review.
• Earn a cumulative GPA of 3.5 and a departmental GPA of 3.7.
• Join and participate in the AIGA or the Student Art Guild
• Take one honors course. This may be an Honors General Education course. Students who have not completed their General Education requirements are encouraged to take Honors General Education classes.

• You must apply to be awarded departmental honors and be cleared by both the Visual Arts and Design Department and the Honors Program.
• Complete the application for Departmental Honors and submit it to the Honors Program (2nd floor of the Stewart Library).
• Visit with Marilyn Diamond, the Honors advisor, to be cleared for graduation with Departmental Honors. Contact her at 801-626-7336 or mdiamond@weber.edu

Students earning departmental honors will be recognized in the following ways:

• “Department of Visual Art and Design” designation on transcript
• “Department of Visual Art and Design” printed on degree diploma
• Personalized letter signed by the President of Weber State University and the Honors Director
• Invitations to Honors educational and social events
• Invitation to Honors Nye-Cortez banquet at the end of the academic year