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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.
“Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come” (Doctrine and Covenants 87:8).
“Mentored research is just one of many ways—but an important way—that our students are able to engage in inspiring learning,” said Dean Laura Padilla-Walker at the April 2025 Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Student Research Conference. “We feel that the opportunities students have to engage with faculty research are a real strength of the programs that we offer.”
Steve Willis (BS ’95) isn’t mistaking early retirement for a slower pace of life. Instead, he’s answering BYU’s call to “go forth to serve.”
It feels like we have been going through a In the face of change, a question I feel period of change in recent years—both as a society and with the changes and challenges you might be experiencing in your personal life. If you feel tired, it seems you may be justified!
What Every Couple Can Learn About Love and Respect from Interfaith Marriages
Mitt Romney shares his secret to enduring happiness with students in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences.
Two Brigham Young University professors have been named as two of the most influential researchers in the world, with one earning the distinction for the first time and another extending a years-long streak on the list.
BYU Professor Lee N. Johnson created the MFT-PRN to transform research into a tool that strengthens marriage and family.