Q: What can you do with a degree in history?
A: Get a great job
I am thrilled when students ask me what, besides teaching, they can
do with a history major. That question gives me a chance to spread
the news: studying history prepares a student for any career that involves
analyzing situations, expressing yourself and working with people.
We train students to reach their own conclusions, based on evidence
and artifacts from the historical record. This program teaches students
to work with “real-life” situations by studying the complexities
real people have faced in the past. This training prepares our students
to take an active role in life.
Employers certainly seem to value a Ripon degree in history, judging
from the jobs our graduates have won:
• Business consulting
• Banking
• City planning
• Law
• Environmental planning and conservation
• The military
• Medicine
• Film production
• Archives management
• Journalism
• Library and information sciences
• Education
This list teaches a simple lesson: major in a subject you love and
learn all you can. The skills that you learn – and self-confidence
that you build – will stand you in good stead when you leave
Ripon.
Barbara Anne McGowan
Professor of History
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