1. To develop broad and deep knowledge of other times, places, and peoples and to equip them to perceive and understand complexity, causation, and connection in human affairs.
  2. To broaden their awareness of human diversity and creativity as well as enduring human problems in a comparative perspective.
  3. To develop research abilities essential to finding and analyzing primary source evidence and to engaging in an informed and critical dialogue with relevant scholarship.
  4. To develop and refine their ability to communicate clearly in writing, speaking, or other medium (such as an exhibition), historical ideas and arguments based on careful engagement with historical evidence.
  5. To develop their own sense of “the historian’s craft” and the meaning of history in their lives and world.