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Trace the past. Shape tomorrow.

Educational Goals

By the end of a history degree, students will have developed:

  • Historical mindedness: Attain a deep, discerning appreciation of the complexities of human experience around the world, from past to present. 
  • Experience in information management: Find, filter, contextualize, and independently engage with a large number of print, digital, visual and specialized data pertinent to the examination of change over time. 
  • Effective analytical abilities and practices: Engage with and critique complex historical evidence as well as diverse theoretical and ideological perspectives. 
  • Skills and habits of mind valued beyond the classroom: Acquire disciplined reading, writing, research, and oral communication skills essential to the independent and collaborative tasks required in varied professional settings. 
  • Active and empathetic citizenship: Practice historical thinking and awareness of different times, cultures, and polities as instruments of responsible engagement with the world today.