Evening Classes at BYU
The Department of Evening Classes supports academic departments and colleges by offering courses into the evening hours for university students.
Individuals who would like to enroll in Evening Classes as non-degree-seeking students may apply for registration eligibility through the BYU Office of Visiting Students. Tuition rates for courses in Evening Classes are the same as for day courses.
All courses taught through Evening Classes are listed online in the university’s official class schedule.
History
Teaching classes in the evening hours has been a tradition at BYU from the very beginning.
When the Brigham Young Academy was organized in 1875, the possibility of extending educational opportunities to adults in classes taught away from the campus or at hours in the evening was considered by Dr. Karl G. Maeser, the academy’s second principal. Dr. J. M. Tanner, student and later faculty member of the academy, outlined his keen interest in early evening courses and mentioned Dr. Maeser’s willingness to undertake such offerings:
“When Professor Maeser arrived in Provo in the spring of 1876, I was laboring in the Provo Woolen Mills and enjoying the anticipation of some scholastic training in Salt Lake. I was unable to enter the school that spring, nor did I find myself able to do so when it opened in the fall. In order, however, to commence my work at the best possible advantage with the class at the opening of the second half year, I made an application to Professor Maeser and the Board for a night class, and secured for that purpose the names of twenty-seven of my factory companions. All manifested unusual interest in the beginning, but the preparations required self-denial and night work more than many felt that they could render, and after a few weeks I was a solitary member in the class.
“Professor Maeser soon touched a sympathetic chord and occasional conversations after the exercises soon won my fullest confidence and inspired me with new ambition.
“It became necessary for me to forego the various evening pleasures common to a community of young people, and after my day’s work was over at the factory I applied myself late in the evenings to my studies. I was impelled to this not only by the interest I felt in the work, but by an ambition I had to keep parallel with the day classes, which I was able to join at the end of six months.”
(Young Woman’s Journal, Vol. 3: 1892, 339–40)
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