Student Learning Outcomes

History Student Learning Outcomes

Master's Level Students will master: 

• Historical knowledge
  • Students gain knowledge of historical facts, learning about and recognizing the influence of the environment, ideologies, economic forces, social organization, and cultural perceptions on historical actors and events
• Historiographical knowledge
  • Students develop familiarity with major historical works, interpretations, methods, and or theories central to their fields of study
• Historical analysis
  • Students learn to recognize patterns of change and continuity over time, identify different kinds of sources and their uses, and critically evaluate sources, interpretations, and arguments
• Historical research and writing
  • Students master the basics of specialized, topical research, craft analytic arguments addressing historical questions, and present their findings orally and in writing

Philosophy Student Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Demonstrate a familiarity with key figures in the history of philosophy
• Demonstrate an understanding of important philosophical theories from different cultural traditions
• Be able to articulate how some key philosophical theories are significant for social issues of the present
• Engage in critical reasoning by appropriately applying the techniques of informal and formal logic
• Be able to read primary and secondary philosophical literature critically (as evidenced by raising salient questions or criticisms)
• Be able to communicate arguments effectively