The History Major and Minor At Muhlenberg
The Department of History offers a nine-course major or a six-course minor.
Goals:
- Provide students with a broad and deep understanding of past societies and cultures and the forces that shaped them.
- Foster active citizenship through the application of historical knowledge to the contemporary world and develop historical thinking that reflects diverse perspectives.
- Challenge the assumption that the human condition always improves or that progress is inevitable.
Skills:
- Students will learn how to use a wide variety of historical sources and learn how to assess their merits and use them for historical analysis.
- Students will become critical thinkers. They will develop higher order reasoning abilities by analyzing and synthesizing disparate forms of information.
- Students will become proficient writers by presenting their analysis in persuasive prose. Their writing will grow in clarity and sophistication as they move through the curriculum.
- Students will acquire basic and advanced historical research skills. They will become fluent in the use of printed and digital sources, bibliographies, databases, primary source collections and search engines.
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