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Career Options
History majors in
past years have gone on to graduate schools, and into careers as professional
historians both as writers and teachers. Many have gone into law and
the political arena. Some have entered the ministry. The interesting
careers of recent graduates of the department have included:
- law practice
- curator of museums
and archives
- administrative
assistant to a U.S. Senator
- free lance feature
writer, with articles in Harpers and New York Times
- historian for
the U.S. Marine Corps
- editorial staff,
the international beat, for a metropolitan newspaper
- bureau chief
for Time magazine
- career foreign
service officer
- managing editor
of newspaper
- Rhodes Scholar
- mayor of Holland
History majors
have also been involved in the following activities:
- editor of the
student newspaper
- participation
in several of the off-campus programs -- Great Lakes Jerusalem Program,
summer and semester study program in Vienna, the Philadelphia semester
of study and work in the inner city, honors semester in Washington,
D.C., Newberry Library Program in the Humanities, year of study in
Japan
- a variety of
local and oral history projects that afford income-earning opportunities.
To accommodate
the broad range of interests and career goals of its majors and other
interested students, the History Department offers two possible majors
and a minor program.
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