- Students will develop skills in research, writing, critical thinking, data analysis, and oral and written communications
- Critical Thinking skills: Students develop their critical thinking skills.
- Conduct research and analyze data: Students will learn where to find primary sources and historical scholarship in databases and libraries, as well as how to evaluate their sources.
- Communicate clearly, both orally and in writing:
- Oral presentations: Students will give presentations on their research in the senior and sophomore seminars.
- Written work: Student will learn to write and incorporate their thesis in introductions to writing; smoothly integrate evidence into writing; organize their writing with coherent paragraphs, transitions, and flow of ideas; and create correct citations following the Chicago style.
- Students develop the skills and methods of historical scholars, including:
- Historical Terminology: Students will know basic terminology in history.
- Historical Methodology: Students will learn and apply methods of historians in writing and research in two research seminars.
- Historical Analysis: Students will learn how to formulate interpretations of history that convey human agency, context, continuity and change.
- Students learn knowledge about the past in at least three geographic regions.
