BYU Terms - C

Brigham Square (plaza northwest of the Wilkinson Student Center)

Garden Court (skylighted room north of the WSC Ballroom)

Joseph Smith Atrium (open area in the center of the Joseph Smith Building)

Kimball Quad (area between the Kimball Tower, the Eyring Science Center, and the Joseph Smith and McKay Buildings)

Lee Quad (area between the Lee Library, Smoot building and Harris Fine Arts building)

Maeser Quad (grassy area between the Maeser, Brimhall, Joseph Smith, and Grant buildings)

Marigold Mall (north–south walkway between the Fletcher, Clyde, Martin, and Clark buildings)

Native Garden (five native plant theme gardens on the hill south of the Joseph Smith Building)

North Hillside (area below the Centennial Carillon Tower featuring the waterfall)

Richards Quad (area between the Richards Building, the stairs to campus, the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse, and the Student Athlete Building)

Sculpture Garden (area surrounding the Museum of Art)

Smoot Mall (area north of the Smoot Building featuring the fountain and flowers)

Wilkinson Way (north–south walkway west of the BYU Store and east of the Lee Library, formerly known as the Checkerboard Quad)

Wilk Terrace (large dining area north of the Cougareat)

capstone (generic senior course)

Capstone (two-semester program for engineering students)

Centennial Carillon Tower

carillon tower

bell tower

Lowercase the word center or institute when it appears by itself. Capitalize when part of an official name (see 17th Chicago 8.57). Please consult the telephone directory or the entity itself for the proper treatment of its name.

class of [year] (class not capitalized)

the class of 1988

When the full title is used, capitalize but do not italicize or enclose in quotation marks: Winter 2016 Class Schedule.

College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences

College of Fine Arts and Communications

College of Humanities

College of Life Sciences

College of Life Sciences

College of Nursing

College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies; Kennedy Center

David O. McKay School of Education; McKay School

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering

J. Reuben Clark Law School; BYU Law; the Law School

BYU Marriott School of Business; J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Business; BYU Marriott

Religious Education

Commencement, convocation, and graduation are not synonymous. Commencement is the event at which the university celebrates the graduation of its students. Convocation is the corresponding college-level event. Graduation is what happens to make these events possible.

Capitalize the formal title of particular commencement exercises; lowercase general references.

BYU commencement

university commencement

commencement

132nd Spring Commencement Exercises

April (or spring) 2017 commencement exercises

August (or summer) commencement

December (or June) graduation (there are no commencement exercises in these months, but students still graduate)

Capitalize titles of official or formal committees; lowercase unofficial or informal ones.

Academic Standards Committee

Undergraduate Scholarship Committee

Her courses must be preapproved by her graduate committee.

BYU Continuing Education

BYU Division of Continuing Education

Lowercase generic references to convocation exercises; capitalize specific references. See commencement

convocations

convocation exercises

College of Humanities Convocation

College of Life Sciences Convocation

Capitalize when used as a nickname for a student, athletic team, alumnus, or BYU-blue-wearing supporter of the university.

Cougar fan

They played the Cougars.

Cosmo the Cougar

There are two stuffed cougars in the Wilk.

Officially “The Cougar Song,” the Cougar fight song, with its famous “rise and shout” chorus, is sung frequently—due to the high number of touchdowns scored—at athletic events. It was written by Clyde D. Sandgren. “The College Song,” written by Annie Pike Greenwood, is sometimes sung at other events (usually by old people who refer to the university as “the BYU” and by the Cougar Marching Band at the end of a football game).

Cougar Marching Band (plays for football games)

BYU Cougar Marching Band

BYU marching band

Cougareat Food Court

the Cougareat

Capitalize course titles, spell out any abbreviations, and set off course descriptions with a colon. Catalogs, class schedules, and so forth that are filled with information about courses are an exception to this rule; common sense dictates the use of abbreviations there.

Philosophy 105: Reasoning and Writing was the course I took.

She is taking Philosophy 105 with her younger sister.

I took philosophy from an awesome professor.

She is taking a 100-level philosophy course about reasoning and writing with her younger sister.