The History Department’s goals are:

1. to prepare broadly educated men and women for entry into diverse professional careers and public lives;
2. to foster the skills that history teaches: analysis, evaluation, and synthesis;
3. to provide students the necessary prerequisites for coherent decisionmaking in all areas of professional life, especially those useful for careers in international relations, public and corporate administration, and law; and
4. to develop in history students a greater appreciation of a “multicultural world, a pluralistic nation, and a technological society.”

 

Students graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history will:

 

1. be able to research historical problems and analyze their historical elements;
2. demonstrate the ability to develop interpretive theses to explain and synthesize evidence;
3. demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate the conclusion of their studies to a general audience; and
4. be able to analyze the impact of changes over time.