MA Program Learning Outcomes
Advanced Knowledge
Graduates have mastered at least one specific historical content area which may be defined regionally, chronologically, or thematically.
Methods
Graduates can recognize and employ varying methodologies consistent with their discipline’s standards. They can relate and explain the interpretations of existing historiographies.
Research
Graduates are trained to create informative historical analyses based upon the collection, organization, and interpretation of primary source evidence, the analysis of secondary scholarship, and the development of historical methodology.
Communication
Graduates have developed communication skills via the presentation of their advanced knowledge and research in writing, public displays, and presentations.
Professionalism
Graduates understand the historian’s professional standards and expectations while recognizing the transferability of these capacities and skills.