VISION The History Department seeks to build its students' transferable skills, employability and intellectual curiosity, along with raising public awareness about the past and its legacies, through teaching, research, and service activities conduct locally, statewide, regionally,nationally, and internationally. MISSION The history department prepares students for a wide range of careers by teaching a core set of transferable skills through the study of societies, cultures, and economics across a broad chronologically spectrum.