About the Programme

History provides graduates with a wide range of transferable skills. Principally, students develop the ability to understand and analyse issues and events to a high level of competence. Other marketable skills include:

• a talent for clear expression, both oral and written;
• putting forward ideas and arguments in a concise manner;
• gathering, investigating and assessing materials
• basing conclusions on research and generating ideas;
• acquiring a broad range of historical knowledge and understanding,
• including a sense of development over time,
• an appreciation of the culture and attitudes of societies other than our own;
• organising material in a logical and coherent way.

To employers who recruit graduates in any discipline, these skills will be more important than the actual subject.

What Will I Study?

Students in this programme will have an opportunity to give special focus to history as an area of deep study in this degree. Followed by the information that is already there. 

The Department offers a Special in History. This requires the student to take eighteen (18) courses for a total of fifty-four (54) credits over the three levels as shown in Programme Details below. The 2020/2021 Undergraduate Student Handbook .
 
 

Career Opportunities

Skills  of the Historian include: research, critical thinking, problem solving, oral and written communication. Careers can be found in areas such as: 

• Museums, libraries and heritage sites: Cultural and heritage manager,Archivist, Museum education officer, Archaeologist, Curator, Tour guide, Historic preservation specialist, Librarian

 

• Business and Commerce: Corporate historian, Social media manager, Content editor, HR manager, Public relations officer, Marketing officer, Communications officer, Records manager, Office manager, Administrative assistant, Event planner, Supply chain manager

 

• Researcher: Genealogical research, Research assistant, Research analyst, Media researcher

 

• Writer: Author, Editor, Script writer, Documentary producer, Public advocate, Contract historian, Journalist

 

• Politics and Government: Political campaign manager, Records manager, Diplomat, Public affairs specialist, Policy advisor, Intelligence officer, Teacher, Cultural resource manager

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