Currently its only degree programs are a Master of Arts (MA) in religious education, primarily aimed at full-time Church Educational System employees, and an MA program for military chaplains.
Religious Education at BYU consists of two departments, Church History and Doctrine and Ancient Scripture.
The department of Ancient Scripture teaches courses related to the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price.
The current dean is Daniel K Judd, with recent predecessors including Brent L. Top, Terry Ball, Andrew Skinner, and Robert L. Millet.
In the early 1930s, Sidney B. Sperry and Russel Swensen, also University of Chicago alumni, were added as full-time religion faculty.
In 1940 the department was split off and made the Division of Religious Instruction, a college-level entity, with J. Wyley Sessions as its first head.
In 1946, the BYU Department of Archeology was organized as part of the Division of Religious Instruction.
David H. Yarn,[1] an alumnus of BYU and Columbia University was chosen as the first dean.