Upon completing the BA degree with a major in History, students will be able to:

• Identify and connect the ways that people, ideas, and technologies have circulated across the range of geographic regions and historical periods.
• Apply historical questions to concrete cases and demonstrate analytical skills through the use of historical evidence, rigorous logic, and persuasive argument.
• Exhibit a solid understanding of historical methodologies and research skills, including the careful and creative use of primary and secondary sources that are read critically and weighed carefully as historical evidence.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the scholarly literature on a given research topic and identify the position of their research within that literature.
• Exhibit mastery in writing persuasive and analytical prose following the conventions of the discipline