History is one of the most desired academic degrees amongst students when it comes to pursuing a Bachelor of Arts.
History degrees are designed to teach you to move beyond yourself and envision other worlds, to explore the interplay between material circumstances and human character. History combines the careful analysis of evidence with compelling storytelling. Moreover, History degrees aim to increase cultural sensitivity and literacy.
This degree is divided into various areas of expertise such as Classical History or Art History, which will help students gain relevant knowledge for themselves.
History is one of the most versatile undergraduate majors, due to the fact that it touches upon all forms of human endeavour from arts and languages to science and economics.
Candidates studying a History course will also be taught how to effectively collect, analyse, interpret, and arrange a wide variety of sources into persuasive arguments. Thus, having these skills will increase the chance of any graduate finding a job, no matter if it is in this field or not.
A report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education illustrates that graduates from History majors have the highest salary amongst graduates from all other humanities majors.
History courses are usually a three-year commitment and offer many academic programmes ranging from foundational courses to specialised ones. Some universities even have site excavations, through which students gain more practical knowledge.
Like most of the degrees, any History course concludes with a dissertation in any chosen area of interest.
I was a member of the Curtin Women’s Collective in 2021 and got promoted to become the Secretary of the collective just this year. As a member of the Curtin Women’s Department, I got the opportunity to promote women’s rights and security on campus. This can be seen through my organisation of the online fundraising event for the “End gender violence against women” campaign along with the Women’s Collective officer at that time.
When I joined the Women’s Collective this year, I got promoted to become a Secretary and it was a great experience as well being able to voice out ideas and ways to raise more awareness of women’s rights, liberty and security on campus. I am going into my last year of my studies at Curtin and it was an amazing experience being a student at Curtin as I was given the opportunity to be a part of the Curtin Student Guild and raise awareness of societal issues that I strongly such as women’s rights.
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