HIST 475: Professional Skills in History

A group of graduating KU Students

Instructor: TBD

Day & Time:
Online
2nd Half

Fulfills HIST: Cat 1

Professional Skills in History 

This course is especially designed for students of the humanities, including history, to prepare for your professional life after graduation!

This course will prepare students by:

  • Building basic knowledge and skills in career preparation, entry, and development
     
  • Discerning personal values and goals for students to make career choices
     
  • Researching and searching relevant professional positions
     
  • Acquiring strategies for successful interviewing to secure positions
     
  • Identifying forms or oral and written communication, interpersonal skills, responsibility, and ethics to succeed in the workforce
     
  • BGS Students: This course fulfills the BGS Career Preparation Requirement!

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Official Catalog Description:

  • This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of planning and organizing job search strategies.

  • Students will identify their professional interests, research specific careers, and prepare applications to positions or internships based on the skills, experience, and knowledge acquired in the humanities, such as history.

  • The final project assignment will consist of preparing a digital portfolio that will include a cover letter, c.v., or resume, lists of specific positions or internships they could apply for, and a video of a mock professional interview.