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Program Overview

Learn about other times and places through documents, objects, pictures and sounds that generations have left behind.

The central purpose of the history curriculum at 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø is to give students who come from a variety of cultural traditions an understanding of the development of values, institutions, and social structures during short and long periods of time.

By offering courses on different regions of the world and on different eras in history, and by emphasizing diversity within cultures, history courses seek to deepen each student’s understanding of human experience in its multiple facets. By challenging students to learn about people who are different, history teaches open-mindedness and respect for differences. The study of history provides a perspective from which to assess events of the present and prospects for the future.

What You'll Learn

As you investigate and analyze history, you'll strengthen your skills as a reader, writer, speaker, critical thinker and researcher. You'll learn:

• How to find, evaluate and utilize primary and secondary historical sources
• The ability to develop and articulate persuasive arguments
• How to apply knowledge and critical interpretation of the past to an understanding of one’s own identity and cultural background, as well as to the identities and backgrounds of others