Student Learning Outcomes:

• Historical Thinking

  • Students will understand the problems inherent in the historical record itself.

  • Students will frame historical questions in a thoughtful, critical manner.

  • Students will evaluate and analyze secondary sources, demonstrating an awareness of interpretive differences.

  • Students will evaluate and analyze primary sources.

• Historical Skills

  • Students will find and evaluate a range of primary sources in suppor of their research question.

  • Students will find and evaluate a range of secondary sources in support of their research question.

  • Students will organize an argument/ a theeis which is a clear framework for the thesis paper. The argument will unfold in a logical sequence of points.

  • Students will cite sources using the Chicago Style Manual.

  • Students will write using proper sentence and paragrph construction, free of error in spelling, punctuation and grammar.