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UNE’s History Major Learning Outcomes

These are the actual learning outcomes for a UNE History Major:

• 1. Apply and utilize the range of skills and historical methodologies it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature.

• 2. Recognize the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that familiarity with history requires.

• 3. Create historical arguments and narratives.

This is how I interpret them:

1. Become proficient with different methodologies when conducting research in order to evaluate the historical record:
   • History, a discipline that initially seems based on straight-forward facts, in reality remains elusive. Although history is based on the documentation of events, the interpretation of the historical record depend on the views, biases, cultural, and socioeconomic status of the author of the primary source. Therefore, utilizing different research methodologies assist in this evaluation process. Archival research, interviewing historians and others, as well as researching secondary source arguments provide a well-rounded approach to formulating historical narratives.

Examples: Archival work (Hands on War Letters), Interviewing historians (HIS 399), Researching secondary source arguments (Witches)

• 2. Understand how historical knowledge is dynamic; Acquire skill in analyzing numerous types of sources, while being aware of hidden or apparent perspectives and biases

• cquire skill in analyzing numerous types of sources, while being aware of hidden or apparent perspectives and biases

Examples: Historical newspaper project,

Become competent in synthesizing information in order to compile a historical argument or narrative

Examples:

Conclusions: