Students will:

Display knowledge of fundamental themes and narratives in history. This implies the ability to:

• Discuss diverse time periods, peoples, situations, and societies;
• Perceive past events and issues in an appropriate historical context;
• Comprehend the interplay of change and continuity;
• Grasp the complexity of historical causation;
• Appreciate the nature of judgments about the past;
• Read critically to differentiate fact and conjecture, evidence and assertion, and thereby to frame useful questions.

Conduct original historical research. This implies the ability to:

• Design analytical and historiographically significant research questions;
• Research and analyze historical evidence from both primary and secondary sources;
• Construct an interpretation that answers the questions posed in the project;
• Situate the interpretation in the historiography of the topic being analyzed.

Communicate historical knowledge and explanations to others. This implies the ability to:

• Present a historical interpretation in a well organized, readable, and logical manner;
• Follow proper rules of grammar and syntax, and accepted style of the profession (Turabian).