To measure the achievement of these goals, the Department requires every major to complete successfully a senior seminar as a part of the history major. At the end of the senior seminar students prepare a written evaluation to assess specifically the goals of the Department. In addition, every history major is required to develop a portfolio over each semester to help measure their achievement of the goals of the major. Assessment of the goals for non-majors will be related to enrollment patterns and the professional judgment of the members of the history faculty. The Department serves the needs of more non-majors than majors.
Students take history as breadth courses.
Others take history as a requirement for other career paths. Of these, teacher education is the most important. Since the history major is small, requiring only ten courses, many students major in history and another discipline as well. Numerous other students take a history minor. Many non-majors take 2 to 5 history courses because they find our offerings to be interesting and helpful.