History Major

The expected Program Learning Outcomes for this major are:

• Students will:
  • understand and produce work consistent with integrity standards.
  • locate, evaluate, incorporate, and properly cite multiple information sources.
  • produce and present original research in which they synthesize the finds of existing scholarship, collect and analyze evidence, and develop research conclusions.
  • develop a breadth of historical knowledge in American, European, and World history.
  • recognize that historical events are the result of a multiplicity of factors interacting over time.
  • analyze the ways in which the historical narrative is a factor of both continuity and change.