History
Chairperson
|
|
|
|
Ben Lieberman
|
|
|
Professors
|
Associate Professors
|
|
| Laura Baker |
Katherine Jewell |
|
| Christine Dee |
Joseph R. Wachtel |
|
| Sean Goodlett |
|
|
| Benjamin Lieberman |
|
|
| René Reeves |
|
|
| Daniel Sarefield |
|
|
| Teresa Fava Thomas |
|
|
Objectives for the Program in History
The History program offers a variety of courses to all students. It provides a strong foundation in European, World and United States history.
The program offers a major and minor in history, as well as provisional certification for teaching history.
Student Learning Outcomes
Historical Knowledge
Graduates with a baccalaureate in history should understand the diversity of human experience in the past, as well as the nature of the historical enterprise. Specifically, you should demonstrate that you can explain the historical development and significance of important events, institutions, and ideas in United States and world history and apply different approaches to and methods of historical study.
Historical Reasoning and Research
Graduates with a baccalaureate in history should understand the nature of historical interpretation, the variety of historical sources, and the structure of historical arguments. Specifically, you should demonstrate that you can pose a significant research question about history; locate, explain, evaluate, and utilize information from and about the past to answer a research question; interpret a variety of primary sources, evaluate secondary sources, and utilize both types of sources to support a historical argument.
Communication
Graduates with a baccalaureate in history should be able to demonstrate that they are critical readers and writers of history. Specifically, you should demonstrate that you have mastered the written and oral forms of communication appropriate to history, such as the critical review, analytical summaries of historical events and arguments, and the research paper.
Through each of these three areas, students taking history courses obtain training in problem solving through the analysis of data and literary and artistic evidence to put forth and evaluate arguments, practice effective skills of communication in expressing ideas, obtain knowledge of citizenship at the local, national and global levels, confront ethical issues in historical reasoning and research, and understand context that produces artistic works.
Requirements for the Major in History
The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts in History require 36 hours of course work. BA and BS candidates in History must have a minor in another discipline. BA and BS candidates for History with Initial Teacher Licensure are not required to have a minor in another discipline.
History Concentration in Initial Licensure (5-12)
Students within our History major can pursue initial licensure as middle and high school History teachers. This program provides students with both a broad introduction to middle and high school teaching and specific instruction in the theory, research and practice of secondary History and Social Studies teaching. Students engage in field-based experiences in the school setting supervised by our faculty through on-site pre-practicum experiences coupled with each teaching course and a formal teaching practicum as the capstone experience.
Students pursuing this option will have to fulfill the degree requirements for the History Concentration in Initial Licensure (5-12) and the minor in Middle and Secondary Education (5-12).The requirements are inclusive of the History Major, the Middle and Secondary Education Minor (5-12), and advanced coursework for licensure. These are described below:
Return to: