BA/BS in History

A history degree here opens several routes: jobs in history-related work at the entry level, graduate school, or a broad liberal arts foundation for work in government service, commerce, writing, and teaching. It is also a familiar path toward law school. Employers look for people who can write and speak well, solve problems, analyze data, and gather information, and history majors practice all of these. The campus sits next to two archives, one run by the state and one a regional branch of the national system. Few, if any, other universities can claim that, and it lets students carry out research in those collections and apply for internships at either one. Graduates should be able to present findings in a coherent way, investigate questions using primary and secondary sources, compare competing interpretations of events and people, write analytically with correct citation, judge the quality of sources, and outline the main chronologies of American and world history. Applicants with questions can write to the department.