Have 27 hours of campus residency.

Complete a minimum of 10 hours in the emphasis after formal admission to the BGS program.

Thirty of the 120 hours must be 300-level or above courses.

Students must earn a minimum 2.0 BYU grade point average, a minimum 2.0 cumulative grade point average, and a minimum 2.0 emphasis grade point average.

The program must be completed in eight years or less.

All emphasis courses taken after admission to BGS must be BYU courses.

Requirement 1 —Complete 1 Course

Prerequisite course (must be completed before taking any other courses, includes preparing academic plan which must be approved before proceeding):

course - Essential College Skills 1.0

Requirement 2 —Complete 4 Courses

Core courses:

course - World Civilization to 1500 3.0

course - World Civilization from 1500 3.0

course - U S Through 1877 3.0

course - U S Since 1877 3.0

Requirement 3 —Complete 18 hours

course - Family Historian's Craft 3.0

course - Con & Col Lat Amer 3.0

course - Modern Latin Amer 3.0

course - British Fam Hist Research 3.0

course - WW II in History & Memory 3.0

course - Italian Renaissance 3.0

course - Reformation: Age of Turmoil 3.0

course - Russian Empire Under Romanovs 3.0

course - Soviet & Post-Soviet Russia 3.0

course - Modern Japan 3.0

course - Family History Directed Rsrch - You may take once 0.5v

course - Acad Internship--Family, Local, and Social History - You may take once 12.0

Requirement 4 —Complete 1 Course

Complete a capstone experience (last course to be completed):

course - BGS Capstone 2.0

Note 1: Other BYU undergraduate courses (including Salt Lake Center classes) in history may also be used to fill emphasis electives.