Historical perspective for UMUC graduates is the ability to put learning and experience in the context of historical events and periods.

Graduates with historical perspective will have gained knowledge of relationships to other times and cultures, past and present, and an appreciation of major contributions of various events and individuals to human civilization. They will have gained a chronological knowledge of the past and/or factual knowledge of a specific historical period, and studied historical topics, trends or events in context of other disciplines to foster an understanding of issues of cause and effect.

• Read, comprehend and explain historical interpretations and data.
• Enumerate historical events, notable individuals, and interpretations within a chronological order.
• Cite examples of historical developments addressing change over time and cause and effect.
• Demonstrate the ability to use primary and secondary sources from libraries, archives, public collections, the Internet and oral interviews to interpret historical events.
• Create, organize and discuss a historical thesis.
• Explain the impact of ethnicity, gender, class, and race on historical events.

• Write a historical overview of American management practices since1870, citing a minimum of three developments in the profession and the individuals responsible for these changes.
• Locate three historical societies or similar organizations that have collections relating to the evolution of American management practices. Write an essay describing the collections and how they expand our knowledge about the current status of American business.
• Interview two individuals, one who entered the field of human resources in the 1950s and one in the 1990s, and write an essay comparing their experiences, changing standards, and principles that apply to the field.
• Write an essay comparing how accounting practices of the 1890s are similar to or different from modern practices. Do the same principles apply, despite the different accounting technologies and theories used in the past century?
• Select a historical topic relating to the discipline, find three primary and three secondary sources about the topic, and write an essay explaining changes that reflect the development of the discipline.
• Write an essay comparing the influence of the rise of corporate industrialism in two different societies.
• Trace the contributions of women and minorities to the historical development of the modern corporation. Cite examples of notable individuals.

• Develop an annotated timeline tracking the effects of computerization on the global workforce.
• Write an essay explaining the development, and the individuals involved, of three or four specific software and system designs, citing comparisons among them.
• Locate three historical primary sources relating to the discipline and write a comparison of the ideas presented in each.
• Interview two individuals, one who entered the computer field in the 1950s and one who entered the computer field in the 1990s, and write an essay comparing their experiences and the change in technology.
• Locate at least three online exhibits on the history of technology (for example, the Smithsonian and other museums or historical societies) and explain how the exhibits expand our knowledge of technology.

• Select one major theme in American culture, for example, race relations, religion, war, or gender relations, and use primary documents to show how the meaning of the theme has changed over time in our society in at least three different time periods. Use specific time periods at least a generation apart, such as 1770, 1850, 1890, 1930, 1970, and 2003.
• Interview two individuals who work in business at the executive level, one in a locally-based company and one in a global company. Write a case study about each person, comparing the moral and ethical dilemmas each individual faces in making decisions in his/her job in advertising, product safety, and the environment, among other issues. How have those decisions impacted the company and the larger community? How did that person develop his/her ethical standards?
• Write an essay comparing the ideas that shaped a particular culture in two time periods: A.D. 2000 and A.D. 1000. Cite specific examples of ideas about science, religion, ethics, justice and technology.
• Using at least four primary sources, such as magazine and newspaper articles, television reviews, and novels, from three specific time periods a generation apart, write an essay that examines changing notions of sexuality in American culture. Cite specific references about homosexual and heterosexual relations, abortion, birth control, the increase in premarital and extramarital sexual activity, and theories of "backlash" for women.
• Do an oral history about gender differences and the impact of religion on the individual. Select a man and a woman from one particular religion-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, among others-and write an essay comparing how that religion impacts men and women in different ways, socially, economically, and politically.

• Write an essay describing the historical impact of war on a society.
• Locate three historical organizations with collections/exhibits about the development of psychotherapy in the United States and write an essay comparing the collections.
• Write an essay comparing the historical development of three political systems; for example, democracy, oligarchy, and totalitarianism.
• Write an essay explaining the historical impact of religion on two different cultures.Write an essay explaining how race, ethnicity and religion have influenced the development of psychology over the past century.