During their studies, successful students in history will learn to:

  • clearly evaluate the assumptions, presuppositions, and arguments embedded in secondary sources
  • interpret the meaning of peoples as expressed in their writings (primary documents) and to explain effectively their impact their ideas had on their culture
  • conduct sound historical research that includes identifying relevant information, evaluating authority, and retrieving, recording and managing information for use in research
  • place events and their participants into historical and chronological context and to explain why actions that took place in the past are historically significant
  • develop awareness of where history took place by locating regions, countries, cities, and other geographic features on world maps

    • Completion of a degree program in history enables students with good academic records to enter graduate study in:

    • History
    • Political Science
    • Law
    • International Relations
    • Anthropology