History

Evaluate debates among historians by identifying the ways in which questions about race, gender, class, ethnicity, region, religion, and other factors influence the historical narratives we write.

Formulate historical questions and articulate a viable research project using historical methodologies. For the BS, those methodologies must demonstrate an understanding and application of quantitative literacy, digital literacy, and/or social scientific approaches to historical questions alongside historical methods that demonstrate an understanding of change or stasis over time.

Explain the influence of political ideologies, economic structures, social organizations, culture, and/or environments on the ways historical subjects have lived, acted, and/or thought in particular periods and places.

Identify, critically analyze, and assess information and interpretations drawn from a range of sources and perspectives.

Construct and support an historical argument with evidence from a variety of primary and secondary sources.