Learning Goals

Upon graduation, a student will be able to:

Develop depth of understanding and mastery of subject matter in a chosen field of history.

Demonstrate critical thinking in exploring the interconnections of the past to the present and the present to the past.

Understand, digest, and analyze scholarly historical monographs, with attention to the author's thesis, structure of argument, and use of evidence.

Deploy research skills and develop analytical understanding in sophisticated thematic projects.

Conduct substantial research in both primary and secondary sources. Write an extended analytical essay building on that research.

Construct and document a historical argument with attention both to the existing literature and to the use of historical evidence and its interpretation.