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A sold-out fashion show at the BYU Museum of Art showcases FHSS student designs, a year in the making.
When disagreements around the family table feel too contentious, focus on compassion instead of correctness.
Books by our faculty
“It’s nearly impossible not to feel the Spirit of the Lord as you sit with someone in their deepest pains, sorrows, and confusion [and] try to offer help, comfort, and hope,” says Elizabeth Nga Byers (MSW ’24).
Imagine a world where the latest academic research is not just confined to scholarly journals but is readily available in an engaging, understandable format. Thanks to professors turned podcasters, that world is already here. Lifelong learning can be as convenient as tuning in while commuting, exercising, or even tackling a honey-do list.
Throughout the year, we love asking students to share about their faith and their BYU experience—whether on a Christmas tree ornament or a sticky note. Here’s what some of them had to say.
There is no substitute for real-world experience, but learning doesn’t come from experience alone. Familiarity with the experiential learning cycle—intention, implementation, and reflection—sets students up for success.
Dear alumni and friends,
Department Highlights
Humane sciences obviously suggests a focus on humans—how we think, love, create, connect, worship, gather, contest, unite, divide, struggle, suffer, exult, rejoice, and overcome. At their best, the humane sciences constitute the careful, penetrating, exuberant study of God’s children across the full gamut of their mortal experience. Such study, I contend, remains indispensable, no matter how fast technology advances or how diffusely it permeates our society.
Highlights from College Lectures
Stanley Jay Knapp: Transformative Teaching
For Erika Olson (BS ’25), one of the benefits of being a sociology student was learning how to understand and connect with others.