Objectives

In the program the courses of study are developed and structured in such a way that student will acquire and develop basic knowledge of the historical material in depth, engage in exercise of critical thinking about historical themes and issues and to develop skills of identifying and solving historical problems through methodological research.

Program Objectives

The program aspires:

ü  To train full-fledged researchers committed to the discipline of history and heritage management to tackle the problem of the society using the potentials and possibilities embedded in the profession.

ü  To produce skilled personnel and professionals who carry out research in the political, economic, social and cultural history of Ethiopia

ü  To produce professionals who are well versed in various aspects of the past, especially of Ethiopia and the horn of Africa (environmental, political, economic, social, ethnographic, dynamics and intricacies in the region).

ü  To produce scholars with the tradition of tolerance towards the ethnic and cultural diversity of the country.

ü  To create professionals with clear world view and ability to relate their profession with local, regional, national and international dynamics and realities andto create polymath students (candidates) who can give a good knowledge of history  for the benefit of posterity.