BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Admission Requirements: To be eligible for admission to the University as a regularly matriculated student, an applicant must be a graduate of an approved high school and have nine academic units selected from among the areas of English, mathematics, science, social science, and foreign languages. A student who has not graduated from high school, but has sixteen units (Carnegie units) of high school credit, may be admitted if his course of study and grades are approved by the admissions committee. A student nineteen years of age or over who has not met the academic requirements specified for regular admission may be admitted to the University as an unmatriculated student. He may pursue any course for which he has sufficient educational background but may not graduate without becoming regularly matriculated. Students nineteen years of age or over and all veterans are permitted to register as regular matriculated students after the successful completion of the General Educational Development Test. Lower Division Requirements: Specific Course Requirements: English 1, 2, 3 9 hours Physical Education 3 hours Health Education 1 1 hour General Education Requirements: Biological Science 8 hours This shall include at least one of the following three courses: Botany 1, Zoology 1, or Bacteriology 21, and other approved courses in these three departments. Humanities and Aesthetics 15 hours This shall include at least six hours of literature, and approved courses in at least two other departments. A full year's beginning course, but nothing less than 15 hours, in a modern or classical language, shall carry six hours of credit toward the satisfaction of this group requirement. NOTE: History courses and Speech 20, 22, 23 are included in the Humanities. Physical Science 9 hours A student may choose one of the following options: Option 1. At least one approved course must be selected from two of the following departments: Chemistry, Geology, and Physics. Option 2. Physical Science 1, 2, and 3 Social Science 15 hours Five credit hours in American History and Institutions are required, but no more than five hours are to be represented by History 70 or its equivalent. At least two fields must be included in fulfillment of the remaining requirements of this group. NOTE: Geography is included in Social Science and History is included in the Humanities. General Requirements: Five credit hours in American History and Institutions are required for graduation. For a Bachelor's Degree, a student must complete a minimum of 186 quarter hours credit, 60 hours of which must be upper division work. Lower division credit earned in junior colleges will be accepted towards the completion of these requirements.