The AHA invites responses to the “Why Study History?” questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of two sets of long-answer questions about individual experiences with an undergraduate  History program. Your answers will help shape the AHA’s advocacy for history education.

Below you will find links to two short statements written by national groups of history faculty members to articulate some of the skills and habits of mind that history majors develop during their studies. If you would like to look them over before filling out the questionnaire, their language may help you to reflect on your experience, and frame your own answers.

1. AHA History Tuning Project: History Discipline Core, https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core   

2. Social Science Research Council, Essential Concepts & Competencies: Disciplinary Frameworks for Teaching, Learning, & Assessment for History, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BytKRe6YR3j7a3dWd1ZaU2oyY1U/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for your contribution to this effort and for your support of the AHA.

Responses may be read by AHA staff and Council members. Also, representatives of the history department or academic unit that includes history at the undergraduate degree-granting institution you identify below may request responses from their alumni. You may opt-out of this sharing at the end of the survey.