Bachelor of Arts - History

Lycoming’s history department offers an intensive and enriching curriculum that helps students cultivate valuable insights about current events through a deep knowledge of the past. A small student-professor ratio helps stimulate thought-provoking class discussion and mentorship. The multitude of exciting study abroad and research opportunities, such as fellowships, summer research grants, and a two-semester research project during senior year, puts Lycoming’s history program on par with some of the most rigorous history programs in the nation.

A broad-based education in the humanities helps students flourish as critical thinkers, concise writers, and eloquent speakers who are well equipped for careers in historical societies, education, law, journalism, and civil service, or for further educational pursuits.

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A history major, combined with the liberal arts and sciences education, prepares students for a variety of careers. Some of the alumni can be found enrolled in graduate school, pursuing advanced degrees in History, American Studies, Medieval Studies, Education, Information and Library Science, and Law, while others begin their careers immediately upon graduation. Below are some of the places they have found employment and the universities the graduates have been admitted to for master’s and doctoral programs.