Concentration Guidelines and Requirements
The History Department teaches tomorrow’s leaders why yesterday matters. More concretely, the study of history holds vital lessons and skills: to appreciate change over time; to understand contingency, complexity, and diversity of perspectives; to analyze sources closely; to research deeply; to write clearly; and to speak with confidence. Graduates of the department report that they find the skills they developed as historians to be essential to their professional work after college, and after graduation our concentrators flourish in a wide range of careers.
The History concentration is easily combined with other programs as a joint or double concentration. Alternatively, the secondary in History provides students with a concise introduction to the discipline. For more information about these pathways, please click on the pages below.