Why History at Mac?

The department expects its majors to:

• Become acquainted with the many, often competing, ways in which historians construct accounts of the past;
• Become conversant with different approaches to textual analysis, with diverse forms of historical representation, with a wide range of conceptual frameworks, and with varied ways of assessing and interpreting evidence from the past;
• Become more proficient in a) using a variety of research and informational tools, b) analyzing and evaluating historical arguments, and c) writing and speaking clearly and concisely;
• Come to appreciate the diversity in human experience through comparisons across time (different historical eras) and space (different geographic regions).