Any other history majors on here? [Archive]

wiccan_witch

10-23-2005, 06:02 AM

Yup!!!

2cnd year university student in History and English. Im loving it! My last paper was on Napoleon and the French Revolution. :)

feministhippy

10-23-2005, 07:18 PM

My mom used to be. Her bachelors degree is in medieval history, she's working on a masters in library science.

I'm a communications major, but I love history. Especially Irish history.

alex714

10-23-2005, 10:38 PM

i'm taking irish history

theres so much to it, i love it.

wiccan_witch

10-26-2005, 06:29 AM

Have just chosen my history papers for next year - The Holocaust, New Zealand Social History and European Magic in relation to politics in the 1500's. :)

alex714

10-27-2005, 03:59 AM

Have just chosen my history papers for next year - The Holocaust, New Zealand Social History and European Magic in relation to politics in the 1500's. :)
i'm taking a class on the history of the jewish holocaust

its very intresting, although, ive noticed people get very heated during discussions

and! i also did a bit on magic in the middle ages....im sure you'll enjoy that one.

feministhippy

10-27-2005, 09:26 PM

The middle ages are interesting. I always kind of knew that in school, they teach you a lot of things that aren't really true, but I had no idea how inaccurate what they teach you in high school about history is until my mom went back to college and studied the middle ages. They basically had us thinking that the people of the time period were a bunch smelly barbarians who ran around killing eachother.

Acorn

11-01-2005, 10:40 PM

what kind of jobs are you guys going to get after you get your majors? what kind of careers are out there for history majors?

feministhippy

11-02-2005, 12:57 AM

Some suggestions:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/undergraduate/careers.shtm (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/undergraduate/careers.shtml)

I'm not sure what some of them have to do with history, though...

Kali Das

11-02-2005, 07:39 PM

I'm going to major in Asian History, particularly Indian. I am taking courses in East Asian art, East Asian history, and Greco-Roman Paganism next year. I may study abroad in Jaipur India next spring.

Quest_techie

11-03-2005, 08:18 PM

ww2 is so great....

I could go forever about machine ciphers....

*Ewan*

11-03-2005, 08:37 PM

Stalingrand snipers are my faovurate w2 subject. The eastern front is the most interesting front, it was the biggest and most decisive.

pagansrule!

11-22-2005, 03:45 PM

Planning on majoring in World History, minoring in American Lit.

alex714

11-22-2005, 08:11 PM

what kind of jobs are you guys going to get after you get your majors? what kind of careers are out there for history majors?
there isnt much you can do with a major in history (career wise)
if you really want to pursue a career with it, youd have to go onto a masters or ph D

and for me, thats the plan.

feministhippy

11-26-2005, 05:44 AM

I may study abroad in Jaipur India next spring.
Wow, that would be such an awsome experience.

hippiewise

11-26-2005, 09:53 AM

i think there will always be a need for history teachers, as history/herstory is always in the making. my major was psychology, back in the 70's so many of us went into psychology field, there was an over abundance of us for awhile, but psychology is always in the need too, especially in this crazy war torn world we live in today.

Alden

11-26-2005, 06:35 PM

Anyone need help with World War II history?

Blueriver

11-29-2005, 02:57 AM

I teach American History. It's interesting because there's always so much more to learn.

WanderingturnupII

12-01-2005, 04:35 AM

I had enough hours for a history minor, but didn't take the right core courses. My focus was Medieval Europe. Also took Old English and Old English Literature. Read Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Old English. Fascinating...

Career Possibilities? Well, you can become a hippie...

Diomedes

12-04-2005, 03:56 PM

I graduate in the spring; I'm a Colonial America especial.

sweetersappe

12-04-2005, 04:34 PM

I majored in History. Mostly I focused on American Minority History. However, my internship was Southeast Asia-focused. As for jobs, soon after I graduated, I was a park ranger. I really loved it, but there aren't too many jobs out there. The last few years, I have worked in education. We are relocating soon and I think I will probably teach, but I would like to be a librarian.