Workforce success
Our history department is a national leader in helping students adapt to the Digital Age and to the booming creative economy. It offers several transferable skills to its graduates, including:
- Analyzing leadership decisions, styles, and consequences
- Making decisions through systematic means and analysis
- Developing alternative ideas and debating their merits
- Managing both small and large long-term research projects
- Time management
- Making evidence-based arguments by conducting complex research, organizing massive amounts of information, and prioritizing it for an unfamiliar audience
- Communicating in easily understandable ways using written, verbal, and multimedia techniques
- Familiarity with diverse cultures and histories of peoples around the world
- Understanding that globalism and localism are inseparable and their power comes from choices made by people
- Confidence to answer questions that seem unanswerable
Career options by sector
A bachelor’s degree in history is a launching pad for a wide variety of careers and is outstanding preparation for graduate and professional schools:
- Public history—museums, historic preservation, archives
- Legal—lawyers, judges, paralegals, managers
- Education—elementary, secondary, colleges and universities, consulting
- Politics
- Business and management
- Public policy and public administration
- Diplomacy and national security
- Law enforcement and intelligence agencies
- Media and journalism
- Writing
- Libraries and information sciences
- Advertising
- Non-profit management and humanitarianism