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Why Study History?
Explore the past and uncover the stories that shaped our world and understand the forces that drive humanity forward.
As a history major or minor, you will:
- Learn and collaborate with involved faculty in small classes. We do not use graduate teaching assistants, which means that your classes will be taught by history faculty.
- Analyze information and events and think critically. The skills you gain as a history major — from examining, understanding and communicating complex historical information through written text and verbal presentations — apply to nearly every profession.
- Develop an ability to craft compelling narratives filled with characters, conjecture, and an appreciation for competing arguments. With such diverse learning outcomes, historians are social scientists as well as humanists, who thrive in a wide array of careers.
What Can You Do with a History Degree?
Recent Pacific graduates with a history degree have become teachers and lawyers, intelligence officers, Peace Corps volunteers and archivists. Several have become teachers and lawyers. Career opportunities for graduates with a history degree run the gamut from working as an intelligence agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to working as an archivist at the Freer + Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
Other Pacific graduates with a history degree have pursued graduate study in a variety of fields including history, archives, film, optometry, education policy, and management.
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