Departmental General Education Goals All survey-level (and
selected upper-level) courses of the Department of History are
designed to complement West Chester University's goals to: -
Develop effective communication by providing students
opportunities to share their interpretations of the past in a
wide variety of written and oral assignments. Students will be
encouraged to become active participants in the class (Goal 1).
- Develop critical thinking skills through reading and writing
assignments and oral presentations. To provide opportunities for
students to develop critical thinking skills as they work to
answer historical questions on the basis of both primary and
secondary sources (Goal 3). - Develop the sensibilities,
understandings, and perspectives of a person educated in the
liberal arts tradition by drawing on the humanities, social
sciences, and other fields to help students understand the
interconnectivity of ideas (Goal 4).