History teachers educate students at the middle school and high school levels. Their primary goal is to help students understand and appreciate the processes and events of history.
Librarians purchase, catalog and study media necessary to the academic research process. Their mission is to make knowledge more accessible and to build information literacy.
Archivists use their knowledge of history to assemble, catalog, and preserve materials and artifacts for governments and public and private organizations, preserving these records of the past for posterity.
History minors learn skills that are vital for lawyers, including how to think critically about evidence, synthesize information, develop persuasive arguments, and communicate clearly and effectively.
Build historical knowledge
Develop historical methods
Recognize the provisional nature of knowledge, and the complexity and ambiguity of history
Apply the range of skills it takes to decode the historical record
Create historical arguments and narratives
“ The faculty is always very accessible and there is a good breadth of classes offered. ”
Draws from the rich array of courses in the English and communications studies departments to give students a broad base of direct and practical knowledge about print, online and broadcast journalism.
Fosters philosophy and the study of religions to encourage a critical appreciation of the deepest issues of human experience of the past and present, in our own culture and globally.
A number of forms and concentrations to meet the intellectual and professional aspirations of our students.
