The civil rights seminars in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences were created to provide a unique experience for students focused on the following purposes:

• Explore frameworks, concepts, models, and examples from Civil Rights Movements that individual students can utilize as they grapple with the courageous, difficult, and complex history of race relations in the United States;
• Encourage and foster a "beloved community" at BYU;
• Provide students with knowledge, skills, resources, personal connections, and networks necessary to participate in dialogues and efforts to improve race relations.