Demonstrate appropriate professional skills in research, critical thinking and communication.

• Learn and apply effective research skills, including the identification of appropriate sources and comprehension of their content material.
• Employ critical thinking in developing a suitable research topic, using appropriate source material, distilling information, offering insights and presenting results.
• Communicate effectively and appropriately in both written and verbal formats, demonstrating competence in grammar, structure, format, organization and logical progression.

Produce reasoned, coherent and substantiated historical arguments.

• Identify a thesis or research question.
• Demonstrate accurate factual knowledge of the topic(s) under discussion.
• Develop and defend a coherent, well-reasoned argument.
• Substantiate claims by appealing to primary or secondary sources.
• Show awareness of multiple interpretations and perspectives.
• Organize work using paragraphs and logical transitions.
• Use accurate vocabulary, spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Demonstrate your ability to integrate both traditional and non-traditional cognitive skills, including analytical inquiry, information literacy, quantitative fluency and communicative fluency.

Demonstrate intercultural competence in addressing civic, social, environmental and economic issues.

Articulate a Christ-centered worldview and its personal, professional and communal embodiment through Christian virtues.