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Exploring history encourages you to develop analytical and critical-thinking skills. You examine many factors that drove yesterday's events - looking beyond easy answers and commonly held beliefs. The emphasis on research, analysis and effectively writing/communicating your conclusions develops valuable skills. History students often enter careers in the following fields:
- Post-secondary education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Journalism
- Law
- Foreign service
- Archival and library work
- Museums, heritage preservation
- International trade
- Politics and civil service
- Interpreters at historic sites
- Corporate historians
- Business
- Banking
- Architecture
- Film advisor/researcher
Testimonial from former Douglas College history student
"I enjoyed my years at Douglas College immensely. It was one of the most important turning points in my post-secondary education career. It was there that I discovered that I could enjoy being a scholar... Along the way I held a number of jobs that related to the study of history, working as a legislative intern, working as a research officer in the Legislature, writing speeches, doing research on public policy issues. I found that the skills one develops as a history student were applicable to public policy research and civil service work.. Studying history enables the student to take a serious look at contemporary issues, read newspaper accounts more carefully to make your own critical judgements about the world around us."
Dr. John Belshaw
Acting Dean of Arts
Thompson Rivers University
