Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [History] From California Polytechnic State University

Historians learn to gather, synthesize, analyze, and interpret evidence; they become skilled in presenting their conclusions to a general audience in a lucid and logical manner.

Program Learning Objectives

• Understand and analyze the sources used by historians.
• Understand how to synthesize historical information.
• Understand how to design, research, and produce an original research paper.
• Understand multiple perspectives.
• Understand chronological and spatial thinking.
• Understand historiography / historical interpretations.
• Understand content knowledge.
• Understand historical change, understand themselves and their lives in historical context, and develop a sense of the past that can sustain them today.