Learning By Doing
If you major in history at Stetson, you will have many opportunities to apply the skills you learn in doing history beyond the classroom. Internships for history students are available in summers and during the semester.
For example, in the summer of 1994 Diane Heritage, '95, received an internship with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and worked in the colonial apothecary shop; Thomas Lopez, '95, interned at The Navy Museum in Washington, D.C., which published and distributed two of his projects as WWII Fact Sheets; Barbara Berry, '96, spent a semester as a research collaborator with a journalist from the Christian Science Monito. Kristy Nelson, '96, interned in local history with the West Volusia Historical Society.
Other history students have had their research published as signed articles in the Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Soviet Union edited by Professor Steeves.
The required senior research project will help you broaden your knowledge of research techniques and explore your personal interests.
Life After Stetson
A major in history at Stetson, like any liberal arts program, can lead you into many career paths, depending upon you own skills and interests. In the study of history, you will learn more about your own identity as you meet people from other times and places through historical literature. You will confront fundamental questions of human existence as reflected in the experiences and challenges of people far removed from your own generation.
The skills you learn in history classes will provide you with the essentials for success in any profession you choose.
A wide range of vocational opportunites is open to history graduates because of the breadth of human experience encompassed by historical study. Many students who enjoy historical inquiry are drawn to such professional fields as the law, journalism, teaching, politics, museum and library work, or the religious ministry. Other history graduates may be found in such diverse areas as the military, the foreign service, corporate management, and banking. A few examples of what recent Stetson graduates are doing:
Charles Bills, '93, is a docent on the staff of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, providing lectures for visitors.
Laura Radiker, '92, is a Ph.D. candidate in Celtic Studies at Harvard University.
Tom Shelton, '94, is a mangement trainee for a national retail corporation.
Brian Williams, '88, is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian history at the University of Wisconsin.
Todd Puig, '88, is a Spanish teacher at a private academy. Lois Westcott, '83, is Ratsuko Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. James Duncan Boyd, '80,is a Presbyterian minister. Jeanne M. Rowzee, '80, is an attorney with a Los Angeles law firm. History department graduates also include Max Cleland, U.S. Senator from Georgia and former director of the U.S. Veterans Administration; Michael P. Scott, U.S. Army representative at the U.S. Embassy in Uruguay; and Stuart G. W. Ulferts, Counsel to the International Mountain Bicycling Association.
The resources of Stetson's Career Services Office are available to assist you in setting specific career goals, and to help you develop the skills needed to implement these goals.