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Department Learning Objectives

 

All of our students should:

  1. Understand and analyze the sources used by historians.

  2. Understand how to synthesize historical information.

  3. Understand how to design, research, and produce an original research paper.

  4. Understand multiple perspectives.

  5. Understand chronological and spatial thinking.

  6. Understand historiography / historical interpretations.

  7. Understand content knowledge.

  8. Understand historical change, understand themselves and their lives in historical context, and develop a sense of the past that can sustain them today.