history

Like business, history is a major that puts graduates in the advantageous position of being prepared for anything. You’ll learn research, writing and critical-thinking skills that will benefit you no matter what career field you choose. Your ability to define and interpret the happenings of the past will be the basis of your knowledge for planning for the future, and many employers will value that skill.

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Four-year degree plan

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Sample Four-year degree plan

Learning outcomes

Critically analyze, synthesize and evaluate primary and secondary historical resources
Engage multiple historical methodologies and multiple sources to produce will-researched written work
Explain historical developments across multiple cultures and regions

Career opportunities

Corporate historian
Legislative staff
Archivist
Museum curator
Historic preservationist

History minor

Take a tour across the globe with a history minor; you’ll focus on Europe/Russia, North America, Africa/Latin America and East and West Asia in your courses. Historical imagination and research skills can help students with a variety of career as jobs and technology change.