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U.S. Histories University Learning Requirements ~ Outcomes
Outcome 1: Historical Knowledge ~ Demonstrates an understanding of processes, peoples, and events in the multicultural histories of the United States over at least 100 years.
Criteria
- Describes and explains histories of the United States from multiple perspectives within a chronological framework.
- Compares and contrasts historical experiences of diverse social groups.
- Describes how equality and inequality have been experienced over time.
- Identifies historical relationships between the United States and other regions/nations of the world.
- Interprets historical primary sources.
Outcome 2: Critical Thinking and Historical Reading ~ Applies critical-thinking skills in reading, comprehending, and interpreting historical evidence and scholarship.
Criteria
- Compares and evaluates competing historical interpretations and/or explanations.
- Describes how historians use two or more of the following analytical categories: class, gender, race, ethnicity, region, religion, ideology, and sexuality.
- Identifies bias and context in historical evidence and scholarship.
Outcome 3: Historical Research ~ Employs historical research methods enabling them to become their own historians.
Criteria
- Identifies a historical research topic.
- Formulates a historical research question.
- Locates, and differentiates between, primary and secondary sources.
- Analyzes historical evidence in response to the research question.
Outcome 4: Historical Writing ~ Constructs a historical narrative which addresses a historical research question using primary and secondary sources.
Criteria
- Presents a historical argument in an essay.
- Applies and integrates the results of historical research and analysis.
- Cites sources of historical knowledge using footnotes or endnotes.
Revised 5/31/05
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