Goals and Student Learning Outcomes

Goals for Majors

  1. Graduates will be critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use and properly cite both types of evidence in their written work.
  2. Graduates will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.
  3. Graduates will achieve a basic mastery of research techniques in history.
  4. Graduates will have effective oral presentation skills.
  5. Graduates will understand historiography.
  6. Graduates will have a general familiarity with the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, Classical Civilization, the Near-East, and one “Non-Western” area.
  7. Graduates will understand the roles of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in history.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
  2. Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
  3. Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians us
  4. Oral presentations are clear and comprehensive.
  5. Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
  6. Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, Classical Civilization, the Near-East, or one “Non-Western” area.
  7. Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.