Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are used in evaluating students and the undergraduate program. The program expects undergraduate majors to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:

• Ability to think about American culture and society in sophisticated, interdisciplinary, historically-informed ways, drawing on coursework in history, politics, and society; literature, art, and culture; race and ethnicity; and each student’s individualized Thematic Concentration

• Ability to identify and critically assess different disciplinary, methodological, and interpretive approaches to the study of Americans and their past

• Ability to produce their own persuasive, nuanced, fact-based interpretations reflecting a close critical reading and analysis of relevant primary or secondary sources

• Ability to express their interpretive and analytical arguments in clear, compelling prose

• Ability to listen actively and to contribute to the productive intellectual discussion