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Strategic Communication: Public CCOM
Relations and Advertising, B.A.
Theatre,
JCFA
B.A. in Theatre
B.S. in Arts Administration — Theatre
Undergraduate students may choose to add a
minor to their study. Minors are posted to the
student’s transcript along with the major and
degree earned.
Minors
Actuarial Science
African Studies
Anthropology
Art + Design
Astronomy
Biology
Business
Administration
Business Law
Chemistry
Chinese
Classical Studies
Communication
Sciences and
Disorders
Communication
Studies
Computer Science
Criminology
Dance
Digital Media
Production
Economics
English as a
New Language
English Literature
English Writing
French
Gender, Women and
Sexuality Studies
Geography
German
History
International Business
Jazz Studies
Journalism
Management
Information Systems
Marketing
Mathematics
Media, Rhetoric
and Culture
Music
Peace Studies
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Reading Teacher
Recording Industries
Studies
Religion
Science, Technology,
and Society
Sociology
Spanish
Special Education —
Mild Interventions
Strategic Communication:
Public
Relations and
Advertising
Theatre
Graduation Honors
Butler University offers two types of graduation
honors — university and departmental.
Students may graduate with university honors,
departmental honors, or both. To be eligible
for these honors, a student must be an
undergraduate who has completed at least 60
academic hours for a grade at Butler University.
University Honors
Cum laude — a Butler cumulative grade point
average of 3.70 or both an average of 3.50
and completion of the University Honors
Program
Magna cum laude — a Butler cumulative grade
point average of 3.70 and completion of the
University Honors Program
Summa cum laude — a Butler cumulative
grade point average of 3.90 and completion
of the University Honors Program
Departmental honors
The purpose of departmental honors is to
reward students for exceptional achievement
within their major. Students are nominated for
departmental honors by the head of the department
of their academic major. Three levels of
departmental honors are awarded:
• “in (major) with honors” is awarded to a
nominee who has a grade point average
of at least 3.60 in the academic major (not
awarded to students receiving their degree
cum laude);
• “in (major) with high honors” is awarded
to a nominee who has a grade point average
of at least 3.70 in the academic major and
who either presents an honors thesis
approved by the department and the
University Honors Program Committee
or passes a comprehensive examination in
the major subject;
• “in (major) with highest honors” is awarded
to a nominee who has a grade point average
of at least 3.80 in the academic major and
who both presents an honors thesis approved
by the department and the University
Honors Program Committee and passes
a comprehensive examination in the major
subject.
All comprehensive exams must comply with
five minimum standards. They must:
1. Be developed and administered by the
departments or programs — i.e., GRE
and other external standardized tests are
not appropriate.
2. Be relevant to the student’s coursework in
the department.
3. Include a written component.
4. Include a component that is common to
all students, and that tests their understanding
of core knowledge in the
discipline.
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