• Historians ask broad questions about how cultures, societies, nations and individuals change. And historians develop crucial lifelong skills of critical reading, thinking and speaking.
  • Students' coursework in history will begin with a survey of the history, including at least two world regions (Western civilization, Asia, the U.S. and Latin America or Africa). Students will then decide whether to complete Plan I (providing a broad education in histories of several geographic areas) or Plan II (encouraging independent work, seminars, the study of historical thought, and active engagement in research and writing).
  • In either plan, students will choose one major and one minor field of concentration from the following possibilities: pre-industrial Europe, modern Europe, United States history, Asian history, African history and Latin American history.