Outcomes

Upon completing this program, students will be able to demonstrate: Library and research skills. Students should be able to locate information independently and evaluate its utility for their research purposes. Critical reading skills. Students should be able to engage a wide variety of written texts and glean useful information from them. Critical thinking about sources of information. Students should be able to evaluate the quality and utility of sources used to understand the past, keeping in mind their context and purpose. Critical thinking about logical inferences. Students should be able to make useful connections among sources of information about history and be able to propose causal relationships based on discrete pieces of information. Formulation of persuasive analysis. Students should be able to use both historical sources and logical inferences to make convincing arguments about the past. Writing skills. Students should be able to write clearly, accurately, persuasively and elegantly about the past and to employ the research apparatus normative to historical writing. Other information presentation skills. Students should be able to present information and arguments about the past in other formats, such as oral presentations, museum exhibits, archival guides, web-based presentations, etc. Interpersonal and project management skills. Students should be able to carry out the stages of any project or assignment in an organized, proactive manner, showing independence, timeliness, professional ethics, problem-solving skills, teamwork and collaboration, integrative learning and the transfer of skills, self-assessment, and good judgment in seeking support or resources. Public history skills. Students should be able to develop history projects for and/or with public audiences, using both the methods and the professional ethics specific to the practice of public history.