历史文学学士

历史系为学生提供了在课堂上和与个人教员紧密合作的机会，以发现历史的丰富性和复杂性。该部门着重介绍欧洲历史，美国历史以及非洲，拉丁美洲和中国的历史。本科生从普通课程开始，但很快就进入了深入探讨主题并提供研究，分析和撰写过去经验的课程。研究生们独立工作，并与教职顾问一起研究他们感兴趣的领域中的阅读和研究，而部门研讨会则使他们聚集在一起讨论他们的研究，从而形成了一种合议的知识文化。
Our history department is an intellectual community that prepares students to engage in issues of vital personal and global significance. Youll gain skills in writing, critical thinking, and evaluating information through research, internships, and publishing opportunities. In addition, youll develop the capacity to reason comparatively and deepen your understanding of global connections among cultures.<br>The department encourages students to pursue imaginative, relevant, and inspired approaches to the national and global past. Students gain vital skills in writing, critical thinking, and the evaluation of information. The department offers undergraduate courses that range from large introductory classes to small, focused seminars that encourage intensive interaction with individual professors and with other students. Beyond the introductory level, most of our courses are also writing intensive and promote in all students critical reading skills and the ability to formulate effective written arguments. Through its core curriculum, the major deepens these capabilities and also cultivates skills specific to the historian, especially research and writing based upon the systematic analysis of primary documents. The department also offers a minor in history, an honors track for the highly qualified major culminating in a senior honors thesis, and a BA/MA program for the exceptional student.