What Can You Do With A History Degree?????

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History provides a broad-based field of study that requires students to develop and utilize critical thinking, writing, and oral communication skills. As a result, History Majors are prepared for a variety of professional occupations. Listed are just a few examples of the types of industries, businesses, and governmental agencies that rely on the research, analytical, and communication skills that a History Degree provides. Note: These are just a few of the jobs available to History majors.

Marketing and Advertising

- Researching market performance and analyzing historical marketing techniques.

Publishing

- Copyediting, manuscript evaluation, researching market demands for historical editing

Public Relations

- Research and analysis for public trends, manage company archives, and write historical material for promotional purposes.

Corporate (General)

- Market analysis, Financial analysis, Political analysis, serve as a staff trainer in foreign cultures, diversity and multicultural training.

Law

- Law School, Paralegal, or legal research.

Insurance

- Claims Examiner (evaluating and settling claims), Marketing, Public Relations, or Company Archives

Film and Visual Media

- Research and write historical documentaries. As an employee or independent consultant, provide information and archival research for motion picture firms, television companies, and record industries.

Journalism

- Use research skills, writing skills, and oral history techniques newspapers, magazines, and professional editing companies.

Government Jobs

Museums

- Museum specialist, Curator, Historian, or Archivist in one of the many National Museums.

National Archives

- Archivist, Preservation Specialist (Film, Electronic Records, and textual records), Archives specialist.

Foreign Service

- Research and writing on the diplomatic, economic, political, social, and cultural history of various countries and regions.

Why History?

A History degree will provide you with the critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills that employers seek. History is more than memorization; it is more than names or dates, it is art and science. It is political, cultural, and social. It is the study of human society. It is a broad-based field of study designed to prepare students for a variety of occupations. “What is past is prologue . . . study the past.”

For More Information, please visit the Department of History, Geography, and International Studies on the 4^th Floor of Grace Hill Jacobs Hall.

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