Career Planning : History Department

Career Planning

Why Study History?
A brief essay by Prof. Frank Luttmer on why we should study history. Also included here are links to other essays on this topic by Natalie Zemon Davis, Roland Barthes, and others.

What Can I Do With a History Major?
A brief essay by Prof. Frank Luttmer on majoring in history and career planning. Also included here are links to other essays on this topic, including ones published by the American Historical Association.

Hanover College Career Center
The Career Center assists students in identifying their career goals, integrating their liberal arts education with those goals, and getting the jobs they want after graduation.

Advice about the Work World

Hanover College Career Center, Liberal Arts Skills at Work (2007)
The Career Center staff helps students "understand the value of their education" and of the analytical and communication skills they have developed here "so that they may sell those skills to potential employers."

Hanover College Career Center, Informational Interviewing (n.d.)
The Career Center staff helps students use informational interviews to learn about careers that interest them or to find job leads.

Advice about Graduate School

Thomas H. Benton, The 5 'Virtues' of Successful Graduate Students (2003)
An English professor gives brutally honest advice about graduate school.

Online Graduate Programs offers collections of essays on various topics, including Should You Attend? and Life in Grad School.

The Law School Admissions Council provides advice on Thinking about Law School, Applying to Law School, and related topics.

Our Career Center recommends Which Graduate School Is Right For You? at gradschooltips.com.

Last Updated: Sept. 14, 2012