HISTORICAL STUDIES: INTRODUCTORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand that History is an interpretive account of the human past, one that historians create in the present from surviving evidence. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Think self-consciously about the various methodologies that historians employ. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Ask questions of primary sources of various types, including, if appropriate, non-textual sources, and use those sources to craft interpretations of the past in written and oral form. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Reflect upon how the class materials allow them to better understand themselves, their own societies, and the larger global community, by engaging with multiple and diverse perspectives. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand that History is an interpretive account of the human past, one that historians create in the present from surviving evidence. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Think self-consciously about the various methodologies that historians employ. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Ask questions of primary sources of various types, including, if appropriate, non-textual sources, and use those sources to craft interpretations of the past in written and oral form. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Reflect upon how the class materials allow them to better understand themselves, their own societies, and the larger global community, by engaging with multiple and diverse perspectives. Audience: Undergraduate