- 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.
- To broaden their 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 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.
- To develop their own sense of “the historian’s craft” and the meaning of history in their lives and world.