At Augustana, you'll learn to understand the past by thinking and writing about history as you investigate change and continuity over time. You'll develop cognitive skills that will help you critically evaluate analyze the causes, consequences and significance of historical events and trends. Your professors will help you become a more active learner, a more curious thinker, a more careful writer, and a more critical evaluator. Each professor has...
The history concentration offers courses in three general areas. These are American history, European history, and non-Western history. These courses prepare the student for graduate study or, together with the necessary professional education courses, for teaching at the secondary level.
Students, especially if they plan to go into teaching, should choose courses from all three areas. This also is true for those planning to go directly on to graduate...
History is a vital part of any liberal arts education, providing students with a perspective of events that have shaped the contemporary world. The study of history also develops practical skills. At Benedictine University, history students learn how to conduct research, write clearly and persuasively, think logically, and read documents critically. Students completing the history program are well prepared to apply to professional schools, tackle...
Our History program stresses original historical thinking. You will learn to analyze primary and secondary sources, to reach your own conclusions about the readings and to document conclusions with historical evidence.
A history major has traditionally served as preparation for a career in college or high school teaching or for a career in law. The major also provides a good background for further study in business or journalism or for careers in...
The history faculty believes that students should view history as a study of human contributions from all parts of the world. For history majors, a curriculum is planned to provide an opportunity for more detailed study of human civilizations in Europe, the Americas, and the non-Western world. While some history majors prepare themselves to teach in secondary schools, junior colleges, or colleges, many other careers are open to students who have become...
As the American Historical Association has noted, ’We all interpret and narrate the past, which is to say that we all participate in making history. It is among our most fundamental tools for understanding ourselves and the world around us.“ The History Department at DePaul University embraces this idea, and is committed to engaging with students, the university, and the wider community in an ongoing effort to understand the past and its varied meanings,...
History majors acquire both general knowledge of the human past and more detailed knowledge of a concentration within the field of historical inquiry. Areas of concentration include US history, Latin-American history, European history and global history. Each concentration requires 36 semester hours in history, including at least 15 hours in the area of concentration. A fifth concentration designed for future secondary and middle school teachers requires...
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