History - Aurora University

History from Aurora University is a Campus Bachelor History degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The history concentration offers courses in three general areas. These are American history, European history , and non-Western history. These courses prepare the student for graduate study or, together with the necessary professional education courses, for teaching at the secondary level. Students, especially if they plan to go into teaching, should choose courses from all three areas. This also is true for those planning to go directly on to graduate school, since there will be plenty of opportunity then to specialize in an area of interest and correspondingly less opportunity to sample other areas. In addition to these courses, each student takes two required courses, Senior Seminar in History , designed to give familiarity with the professional aspects of history, (i.e., with research, writing, and interpretation) and Problems in History , a reading seminar on changing topics. For the student who is interested in history as a major but who does not plan to teach, there are a number of alternatives. Students of history develop skills and perspectives (basic research and perhaps statistical skills, the ability to place problems within a broader context, the ability to deal effectively with questions of cause and effect, etc.) that can be widely applied in fields outside the classroom. Liberal arts students with a history concentration may find satisfying career opportunities in such fields as historical administration, historical editing, museum and archival work, government, communications, publishing, law, banking, market research, advertising, and the travel industry. View more details on Aurora University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related History courses.