Bachelor of Arts - History

Program Description

The History program at University of Tennessee Knoxville teaches people to ask good (and sometimes difficult) questions, and they give them the tools to find answers—something they hope becomes a lifelong practice. Investigating past worlds and experiences can give a broader and more sophisticated understanding of the common humanity, and that knowledge of the past makes all kinds of present-day concerns more intelligible.

It’s no surprise, then, that this program's graduates have found extraordinary careers in every field of endeavour, including media, business, public history, teaching, the law, museum and archival work, public relations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, publishing, and community affairs, among many other fields. History majors do all kinds of things well, from collecting vast amounts of information and distilling it in useful ways to offering fine-grained analyses of significant questions.