历史文学学士

历史系通过涵盖所有主要地理区域和时间段的课程，向学生介绍人类经验的丰富性和复杂性，并强调该体验的统一性以及文化，社会和性别等因素产生的多样性差异。我们不仅寻求发展过去的知识，而且还寻求发展对作为一门学科的历史的认识，该学科采用各种学术方法来努力理解过去。教会学生以历史学家的身份思考和工作：批判性地和分析性地阅读主要和次要资料，欣赏历史问题的复杂性和历史观点的多样性，并调查历史问题或问题并传达调查结果。通过广泛的准备，历史专业的学生将获得必不可少的知识和关键技能，这为广泛的专业和职业提供了宝贵的资产，也是进
The Department of History introduces students to the richness and complexity of the human experience through a curriculum that covers all major geographic areas and time periods, and emphasizes both the unity of that experience and the diversity resulting from such factors as cultural, social, and gender differences. We seek to develop not only a knowledge of the past, but also an appreciation of history as an intellectual discipline that employs a wide variety of scholarly methodologies in its effort to understand that past. Students are taught to think and work as historians: to read critically and analytically both primary and secondary sources, to appreciate the complexity of historical issues and multiplicity of historical views, and to investigate a historical question or problem and communicate the results of that investigation. Through this broad preparation, history majors acquire essential knowledge and critical skills, which provide valuable assets for a wide spectrum of professions and occupations as well as the fundamental basis for advanced study. Program objectives for a B.A. in History are: (a) a fundamental knowledge of the past, including key historical events, ideas, figures, movements, and periods; (b) an awareness of the diversity of historical experiences over time and space; (c) the ability to recognize, locate, analyze critically, and utilize primary and secondary sources; (d) the ability to recognize and evaluate differing historical interpretations and methodologies; (e) the ability to research a topic thoroughly using both primary and secondary sources, and to present a clear and well-written historical argument based on that research; (f) express a high degree of satisfaction with the quality of the education received in that program.