Trinity Hall, Room 223, Zip 0735
530-898-5365
adanielli1@csuchico.edu
M-F 8:00am - 5:00pm

History Writing Cooperative
Trinity Hall, Room 202
Closed for Summer 2023
hwc@csuchico.edu

Goals & Program Learning Outcomes

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.
Graduates will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.
Graduates will achieve a basic mastery of research techniques in history.
Graduates will have effective oral presentation skills.
Graduates will understand historiography.
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.
Graduates will understand the roles of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in history.

Students will be able to:

Communicate historical knowledge, interpretations, and arguments clearly and effectively in their work.
Demonstrate an understanding of political, social, cultural, economic, gender, and environmental history.
Formulate research questions and strategies, conduct research using print and digital tools and resources, and properly incorporate and cite primary and secondary sources as evidence.
Identify historical arguments, evaluate them critically and ethically, and apply the study of the past to real world issues of contemporary concern, including structural racism, the erosion of democratic institutions, climate change, and the need for social justice.
Demonstrate knowledge of diverse human experiences across time and space, reflecting an understanding of the histories of people of varied races and ethnicities, origins and nationalities, sexualities, gender identities, religions, socio-economic classes, and other intersectional identities.
Engage in making the past accessible and relevant in the public sphere.