History

Identify the key events which express/define change over time in a particular place or region.

Identify how change occurs over time.

Explain historical continuity and change.

Describe the influence of political ideologies, economic structures, social organizations, cultural perceptions, and natural environments on historical events.

Discuss the ways in which factors such as race, gender, class, ethnicity, region, and religion influence historical narratives.

Explain how people have existed, acted and thought in particular historical periods.

Explain what influence the past has on the present.

Develop an international perspective on the past that addresses the cumulative effect of global exchange, engagement and interdependence.

Interpret the complexity and diversity of situations, events and past mentalities.

Compare eras and regions in order to define enduring issues.

Recognize a range of viewpoints.

Compare competing historical narratives.

Challenge arguments of historical inevitability.

Analyze cause-and-effect relationships and multiple causation.

Evaluate debates among historians.

Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.

Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources.

Formulate historical questions.

Obtain historical data from a variety of sources.

Identify gaps in available records.

Recognize the discipline's standards for accurate and ethical research.

Construct a well-organized historical argument

Support an interpretation with historical evidence from a variety of primary and secondary sources.

Acquired intensive specialized knowledge of one field of historical study.

Aquired substantial specialized knowledge of two additional fields of historical study.

Acquired substantive training in the research methods of, and theoretical approaches to, the discipline of History.

Acquired the ability to elucidate the major historiographical and methodological challenges and developments at the forefront of the discipline.

Completed two article-length essays based on original research.

Completed and defended one book-length dissertation based on original research.

Acquired advanced proficiency in one foreign language.