Students can design a major concentration tailored to their unique interests and professional goals. A self-directed major concentration might focus on specific issues or themes such as business and economics; urban history and planning; immigration and migration; women, gender, and sexuality; social and political movements, or environmental history. Students might also design a major concentration in the fields of public history or digital history. To earn this concentration, students must identify and consult with a faculty mentor whose expertise directly corresponds with the concentration they wish to self-design.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the past across diverse regions, peoples, and social groups, including minorities and women, as well as periods of the past before the modern age.
- Demonstrate a grasp of history beyond just facts associated with discrete events.
- Develop an integrated approach to the past that does not treat countries and topics in isolation but rather studies them in a comparative mode both chronologically and geographically.
- Demonstrate proficient critical thinking, clarity of expression, and sound arguments in oral and written work.
- Analyze and evaluate original sources through their coursework and research projects.
