Undergraduate Programs
Student Learning Outcomes
Bachelor of Arts in History (B.A.)
Students completing the History B.A. program will achieve the following:
- Know
- the importance and critical perspective of historical knowledge for understanding contemporary society and
- basic facts, concepts, terms, and theories germane to historical study.
- Understand
- how people have existed, acted, and thought in the past in various regions of the world and
- the nature of history as a discipline, including the existence of differing historiographical traditions and interpretations of the past.
- Be able to
- locate historical evidence and determine its quality, including both primary and secondary sources;
- read, evaluate, and interpret texts critically; and
- research, describe, and explain a complex historical event in a coherent manner, employing the conventions and standards of the discipline.