History

Mission

The History program at Chadron State College is committed to student learning. Our program’s layered curriculum promotes inquiry, delivers content, develops critical thinking and promotes written and verbal skills in a learning environment that is equitable, open and pedagogically informed. The History program contributes to the vitality of the college and the region by providing an educational experience for students who are preparing for a life of thoughtful engagement in a global society.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Historical Interpretation
    • 200 - Illustrate how historians make interpretations of the past.
    • 300 - Distinguish broad trends in historical interpretations (historiography).
    • 400 - Synthesize multiple historical interpretations.
  2. Scholarly Argument
    • 200 - Identify authors’ arguments.
    • 300 - Distinguish between authors’ main arguments and secondary points.
    • 400 - Evaluate authors’ arguments and evidence.
  3. Historical Sources
    • 200 - Learn how to analyze/question a source.
    • 300 - Evaluate sources and contrast diverse and conflicting sources.
    • 400 - Formulate relationships among multiple sources.
  4. Thesis Statement
    • 200 - Develop thesis statement supported by evidence using appropriate standards of evidence.
    • 300 - Create an argument, marshal evidence from multiple sources, and use endnotes, footnotes and bibliography.
    • 400 - Select problem of study, find appropriate resources, and use endnotes, footnotes, and bibliography.
  5. Social Sciences
    • 200 – Demonstrate the connections among cognate social studies areas.
    • 300 - Integrate perspectives from multiple cognate social studies areas.
    • 400 - Evaluate the applicability of cognate social science areas.
  6. Communication
    • Display clear and cogent written and oral communication.
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