LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

2024-2025 CATALOG

The Academic Catalog is the official listing of courses, programs of study, academic policies and degree requirements for Loyola University Chicago. It is published every year in advance of the next academic year.

Historical Knowledge and Inquiry

Area Goal: This Core Area of Inquiry will invite students to explore the human experience from a historical perspective.

Area Objectives: History is a form of inquiry, critical thinking, and understanding that encompasses all aspects of human experience and illuminates how the past shapes the present and thus the future. Through these courses, students will explore historical and contemporary perspectives with a view to fashioning a humane and just world. Students will have the opportunity to examine a range of historical evidence in multiple forms such as documents, films, diaries, images, artifacts, empirical data, and oral and digital histories.