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Learn About Grad School OptionsWhat can you do with an undergraduate History major or minor?
History majors and minors acquire many skills that prepare them for dynamic and rewarding careers upon graduation.
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As a History major or minor, you will gain invaluable skills that will elevate you to the next level of your career goals. Explore what effective writing, critical analysis and research skills, interdisciplinary thinking and training and curiosity and inquisitiveness mean for you.
- Effective writing skills—fundamental to any job for which a college degree is a necessity, effective writing means the ability to successfully and precisely communicate one’s ideas in text.
- Critical analysis skills—necessary to the decision-making process for any job, critical analysis means the ability to analyze a situation and come up with creative and practical solutions.
- Research skills—essential to any job or career, research skills encompass the ability to understand past practices and policies and to trace the roots of any issue, to find new information which bears on that issue, and to incorporate that information into one’s analysis of an issue.
- Interdisciplinary thinking and training—interdisciplinary thinking and training provide the essential abilities to think about a problem in a multitude of ways, to analyze it using multiple tools, and to provide solutions which draw from different traditions and thought.
- Curiosity and inquisitiveness—indispensable to any position, curiosity and inquisitiveness entail the desire to learn more and to continue learning, to examine reasons beneath issues, and to come to understand them as part of a continual, life-long, education process.
Career Options
Now that you’ve got the skills and what they mean for you. You can get that dream job too!
History Job Titles
- Advertising
- Advocate
- Analyst
- Archivist
- Broadcaster
- Business Executive
- Campaign worker
- Consultant
- Congressional Aide
- And don’t forget: Editor, Foreign Service Officer, Foundation Staffer, Information Specialist, Intelligence Agent, Journalist, Legal Assistant, Lobbyist, Personnel Manager, Public Relations, Canvasser, or Teacher.
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303-615-0500
Campus Location:
Central Classroom Building, Room 211
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Department of History
1201 5th St., Campus Box 27
Denver, CO 80204