BYU's College of Family, Home and Social Sciences

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.

The BYU College of Family Living was organized on June 28, 1951 while the BYU College of Social Sciences was organized in 1970. These two colleges merged to form the current college in 1980. 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. American Heritage 100, a general education class taken at BYU, is also in the college.

The anthropology department offers a BA in anthropology and two emphases, including socio-cultural anthropology and archaeology. It also offers minors in both anthropology and African studies and an MA in anthropology with an archaeology emphasis. Affiliates of the department include the BYU Office of Public Archaeology the Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures. 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. In 1979 the Department of Archaeology was renamed the Department of Anthropology.

Economics courses began to be taught in 1895. The Economics Department was established in 1921. Policy issues the department teaches include natural resource economics, economic development and growth, international trade and finance, economic history, the organization of industries, the development and efficiency of law, business cycles, labor markets, and public and private finance. The department uses a calculus-based approach in its core courses and houses approximately 22 professors whose research interests vary across the field. The department offers a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science and a minor in economics.

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