Learning Outcomes

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

• An understanding of what it means to think historically: locating subjects in time and place and being sensitive to the contingencies of context and change over time

• Critical and interpretive thinking skills using the course’s primary source materials

• The ability to identify different types of sources of historical knowledge

• Analytical writing skills and close reading skills

• Effective oral communication skills