Introduction to the Undergraduate Classes

We don't offer baccalaureate degrees, but we do offer courses that fulfil requirements leading to a Brigham Young University baccalaureate degree.

There are three formal components to the baccalaureate at Brigham Young University : religious education, general education, and education in a major. Of these, the first two constitute the university core. In accordance with The Aims of a BYU Education , each of the three components complements the others. They are not partitioned off from one another; none claims preeminence; together they comprise a whole, a harmony.

The relationship between the university core and the major will vary in any given year according to the competing demands for the student’s attention. However, students should strive to develop their programs in such a way that a lively interrelationship between the university core and the major, in which each nourishes and informs the other, is pursued over the entire undergraduate experience. For a fuller description of each of these components—their underlying philosophy, objectives, and details—please see the University Core and Major sections of the BYU Undergraduate Catalog ( http://saas.byu.edu/catalog/).