历史文学学士

历史是一门文科专业。一定程度的历史意义不是让教授告诉您应该怎么想，而是要培养可以让您理解事物并阐明自己的令人信服的解释的技能。它的学习方法-从严格的定量分析到接近的原文阅读，从鼓励学生使用初级材料到帮助他们更好地了解世界上一些重要的文化，从坚持卓越的交流到精通研究方法-为学生准备应对瞬息万变的世界的挑战。历史的方法广泛，其主题几乎是无限的。即使是对历史系中的课程内容的一瞥，也可以发现各种类别和口味的课程，从金钱的历史到持久的记忆和身份的炼金术。
The History Department requires all its majors to choose a concentration within the major. Since History as a discipline is diverse and our students come to it with varied expectations, the student's concentration may aim at a broad exposure to history General Studies in History or at deeper immersion in one of three geographically based or three thematically focused approaches. The geographic concentrations are: United States, Europe: and, Latin America and Non-Western World. The thematic concentrations are: Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Empires, Nations, and Citizenship, and, Law, Economics, and Human Rights.