Upon completion of the Bachelor of Art’s degree in History, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the nature and goals of history as a discipline, including the ability to describe the complexity of the past, the records historians use to reconstruct it, and the ways in which historical knowledge applies to life beyond the classroom.
- Summarize and analyze multiple interpretations of the past by identifying causal factors, tracing change and continuity, contextualizing historical development, and making meaningful connections between past and present.
- Demonstrate research and information literacy skills, including the critical use of primary and secondary sources in both print and electronic formats.
- Communicate historical knowledge, interpretations, and arguments clearly in written and oral form, and to format written work in the predominant style of the discipline (Chicago Manual of Style).
- Describe and analyze the basic themes and issues in global history and United States history, including an awareness of the history and legacy of systemic inequalities.
- Compare different societies, systems, and cultures, analyze historical continuity and change, and identify connections between local and global contexts.
- Describe and analyze the historical construction and long-term implications of social categories, such as class, race, ethnicity, and gender by critically evaluating the use of these categories in primary and secondary sources.
- Demonstrate a capacity for life-long learning by completing an independent research project involving the formulation of a historical question and the composition of a formal research paper exploring that question utilizing both primary and secondary sources.
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