Learning Outcomes

Students in the H major at  will demonstrate:

• Ability to analyze and interpret historical materials, such as documents, artifacts, and images
• Ability to engage in chronological reasoning to understand causation and change over time
• Ability to examine critically how people in the past understood their own history, in scholarly works and in popular forms such as myths or commemorations
• Ability to interpret, write, and speak about the past using evidence and according to the standards and expectations of the historical discipline, including honest use of evidence, openness to multiple perspectives, and historical empathy
• Ability to analyze how processes -- such as revolution, migration, war, ecological disturbance, and globalization -- shaped societies over time and how people grappled with issues like class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and ideology.

Potential Occupations

• Government official in foreign service, national security, military, cultural resources management, and other areas;
• History teacher in public and private schools;
• Any professional occupation in business or public service requiring a liberal arts education and skills in research, writing, and the analysis of information;
• With additional graduate training: lawyer, physician, social worker, minister, librarian, museum curator, archivist, professor, educational administrator, or other professional.