Discuss comprehensively encounters and interactions within societies and between societies. Explain the forces and processes that cause historical continuity and change. Indicate how the human past is constructed and interpreted in different ways and at different times. Cite multiple methodologies, modes of communication, and pluralist approaches that contribute to historical understanding. Identify the legacies of the human past and their implications for contemporary society.
Skills Discuss the legacies of the human past and their implications for contemporary society.
Appraise the multiplicity of messages in historical inquiries and sources. Evaluate appropriate methodologies and research tools including primary, secondary, and material sources. Use information literacy abilities as a means to locate, evaluate, and integrate printed and electronic information as defined by standards discussed in the ACRL s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Discuss inherited interpretations of the past. Explain ways in which the past has shaped the present.