Approved Courses in Social Change in Historical Perspectives ONLY

Goals & Outcomes

Students should understand how social contexts change over time and how human events have been, and continue to be, shaped by social and historical forces.

• Students should acquire an informed and critical understanding of change in societies. They should understand broad patterns of social development in pre-modern and modern societies.
• Students should appreciate the wide range of actors; women and men, elites and ordinary people, classes and ethnic groups; and their role in social change.
• Students should understand how historical information is acquired and relevant hypotheses confirmed or disconfirmed. They should gain skills in comprehending both secondary works and primary sources, and develop a fluid and effective style of writing and speaking about social change.