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