Each Threshold Learning Outcome (TLO) below has been divided into a number of subtopics. Those subtopics are expanded by looking at 3 specific questions:

1. What do first year history students need to know and do in order to set them on their way to meet the TLOs in their third year?
2. What are the barriers to student learning?
3. What teaching strategies can we use to help students overcome these barriers?

The Good Practice Guide: First Year History has an overview of this website and specific strategies for teaching History in first year. Download it here.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of at least one period or culture of the past.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of conceptual approaches to interpreting the past.
3. Show how History and historians shape the present and the future.
4. Identify and interpret a wide variety of secondary and primary materials.
5. Examine historical issues by undertaking research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.
6. Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.
7. Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in audio, digital, oral, visual or written form.
8. Identify and reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in their study of History.