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Barrett Honors Students

The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication welcomes its Barrett honors students.  As an honors student you will have the opportunity to work closely with some of the nation’s top scholars in the study of Interpersonal, Organizational, and Intercultural Communication as well as in Rhetoric and Performance Studies.  The knowledge and skills you develop as a Barrett Honors student in the Communication majors can provide professional as well as personal benefits, whether you pursue graduate study or career development after college graduation.

Each honors student selects a program of study that mixes core requirements and electives. While we do not have a specific set of courses required for honors students, you may take footnote 18 contracts within any upper division course taught by a regular faculty person, and there are occasionally special sections of our courses reserved exclusively for Communication honors students, such as Com 312 (“Conflict and Negotiation”) offered Fall 2007.

Some of the thesis topics that Communication honors students have studied in the past are:

• Comparisons of body image among adolescents and older women 
• Nonverbal behavior in the courtroom
• Social movement analysis of People for the Ethnical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
• Cultural analysis of the Arizona Tribal Gaming Initiative
• Contested American values demonstrated in the Welfare Reform Act of 1998
• Maintenance strategies in long distance versus proximal close relationships. 
• Sex differences in managerial work styles 
• Conflict resolution strategies in an insurance company

If you are already enrolled as an honors student you should contact Prof. Judith Martin, the Communication faculty advisor for honor students. She, along with our staff advisors, will assist you in planning your courses and help you find a thesis advisor. For a list of our faculty and their interests, please click here. If you are interested in becoming an honors student, please contact Barrett, the Honors College (Michelle.Hollin@asu.edu).