The BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences is a college located on the Provo, Utah campus of Brigham Young University and is housed in the Spencer W. Kimball Tower and Joseph F. Smith Building.[1]
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The BYU College of Family Living was organized in 1969 while the BYU College of Social Sciences was organized in 1970.[2] These two colleges merged to form the current college in 1979.[3] The first dean of the college was Martin B. Hickman.
Departments and programs within the college include studies in Anthropology, Economics, Family Life, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.[1]
The BYU School of Social Work is a sub-unit of the BYU College of Home, Family and Social Sciences. It currently only offers a masters of social work program, but previously offered a bachelors in social work program as well. The decision to shift to having only a masters program was due to a perception that bachelors in social work were not looked for, and that in many ways a bachelors in psychology or sociology better prepared the students for a career in the field. It also reflected a general decision by BYU to focus more on building successful programs than trying to be all things to all people.[4][5][6]
Among the graduates of the school is Pam Johstoneaux who specializes in sexual behavior related counseling.[7]
The Brigham Young University history department offered master's programs up until 2008. In that year it was decided to end masters programs and focus all the department energies on undergraduate work. With nearly 1000 undergraduates it was felt that this would allow the department to better prepare them for graduate school and let the school focus on its core work.[8]
The history department offers majors and minors in history as well as history teaching which can be obtained in conjunction with the David O. McKay School of Education's secondary education teaching program. It also offers classes in Native American Studies which can lead to a minor in that subject.
The first appointment to a professorship in Archeology at BYU occurred in 1945, shortly after Howard S. McDonald became president of BYU. M. Wells Jakeman was appointed to this position. Archaeology was made its own department in 1946.[9] In 1979 the Department of Archaeology was re-named the Department of Anthropology.[10] This re-naming was accompanied by a shift away from studying the archeology of the scriptures.
The School of Family Life is a major component of this college. It includes the Family Studies Center which coordinates and disseminates research on the family.
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