Students seeking a broad knowledge of human experience can choose no better major than history.
As they examine these materials and consider various hypotheses, students of history, like professional historians, will develop several important skills. They will learn how to assess the adequacy of evidence, how to compare and contrast, how to summarize, and how to draw conclusions. They will also acquire a better sense of perspective, a sense of what issues are of lasting impor-tance and what are not. This is knowledge that will be useful throughout life, regardless of one's vocation. In fact, leaders in business and the professions now insist on the value of a broad-based education of the kind that history provides.