Learning Goals for History Majors:
Thinking in Time
History Graduates will be able to:
- Analyze historical duration, succession, and change in terms of human agency and larger
systems or structures in a wide variety of places and periods. [Historical Comprehension]
- Use historical thinking to contextualize and analyze primary and secondary sources
representing different points of view. [Historical Analysis]
- Conduct original research by investigating and interpreting primary and secondary
sources. [Historical Research]
- Use evidence-based reasoning to interpret the past coherently while developing and
presenting an original argument, orally and in writing. [Historical Interpretation]