Why Students Should Still Pick a History Major

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 22, 2019 | Jacob Bruggeman

[bgill]

I chose history course as electives and when wanting to fill out the semester. Agree, they were more fun than practical. Wish someone had told me to take business courses.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

During “Food in History,” a course co-taught by nearly a dozen Miami historians, Elena Albarrán explained the significance of tortillas in Latin American history and demonstrated how to make them from scratch.

So you paid $500 a credit hour to learn something you could have learned in a 30 minute You Tube clip?

[FLT-bird]

As a grad with a history major at a pretty highly regarded university myself, I would advise younger people to go into more practical fields like STEM, accounting, business, finance, etc. It took getting grad degrees before I had practical skills in the marketplace.

Also, it doesn’t help that PC Revisionism has been pushed relentlessly in history departments complete with a rigid intellectually Stalinist orthodoxy that does not hire and denies tenure to any professors who do not tow the big government Leftist line. This became noticeable in the 80s and was becoming really pronounced in the early 90s when I graduated. I learned FAR more history reading original sources and sources from outside the Academy as well as historians from earlier generations than I learned in college.

[dfwgator]

[JimRed]

Learning history is beneficial, unless it is the revised history promoted by the left. But majoring in it prepares you for what, exactly, other than teaching history?

[Albion Wilde]

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