Graduate instructors receive a week of intensive training followed by regular in-service training. The graduate instructor has sole responsibility for the class, including class instruction, assignments, quizzes and exams, and final grades. Acceptance into the English graduate program does not guarantee a teaching position. Brigham Young University is situated in central Utah at the foot of the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, forty-five miles south of Salt Lake City. The campus is the focal point of a city of 90,000 and a valley of 275,000.
Outdoor activities abound in the nearby mountains, lakes, and national parks.
With a present student body of over 30,000, BYU is acknowledged as one of the nation's largest and most distinguished institutions of private education. A high standard of conduct is expected of those who join the university community, regardless of religious affiliation. All members of the BYU community agree to live lives of kindness, honesty, charity, virtue, and faithfulness. BYU's Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature holds an annual symposium on campus and publishes Literature and Belief , a scholarly journal with a list of eminent contributors. In addition, the BYU Folklore Archive provides research opportunities in Western and Mormon folklore.