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Dartmouth Alums With This Major

• Senior Vice President and General Manager, Fox Sports Net Bay Area
  (California, Dartmouth '78)
• Community Relations Director, The Upper Valley Land Trust
  (New Hampshire, Dartmouth '81)
• Executive Managing Director, Thacher Associates
  (New York, Dartmouth '79)
• Jon Murchinson, Senior Manager in the Corporate Communications Department, Google
  (California, Dartmouth '91)
• Sonya Ooten, Jewelry Maker, Self-Employed
  (California, Dartmouth '89)
• Reporter for Reuters, America, LLC
  (Mexico, Dartmouth '02)
• Special Projects Coordinator for Bush Administration
  (White House, DC, Dartmouth '02)
• Human Rights lawyer, Southern Center for Human Rights
  (Associate, Rhode Island, Dartmouth '02)
• Physician, Duke University Medical Center
  (North Carolina, Dartmouth '97)
• CFO (Chief Financial Officer) for AeroSat Corporation (Aerospace),
  (Massachusetts, Dartmouth '97)
• Associate Curator, Rubin Museum of Art,
  (Connecticut, Dartmouth '87)
• General Manager, Miller Brewing Company,
  (Wisconsin, Dartmouth '87)
• Director of Research, The Taft School,
  (Connecticut, Dartmouth '87)
• Owner, "Central Coast Outdoors" (Outdoor Adventure Company)
  (Califonia, Dartmouth '87)
• Founding Director, World Education & Development Fund
  (New York, Dartmouth '87)
• Professor of History, Yale University
  (CT, Dartmouth '84)
• Foreign Relations Committee, US Senate
  (Washington DC, Dartmouth '79)

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Major Description

Students pick an area of concentration within the major, such as "political history," "Medieval & Early Modern history" or "history of Asia."

Skills Acquired

What is this?

• Critical and analytical reasoning
• Creative thinking and problem-solving
• Research skills
• Written and oral communication
• Historical and cultural understanding of ourselves in a world context
• Ability to work independently

Possible Career Paths

• Law
• Finance/Business
• Education (K-12-University)
• Health/Science
• Arts/Entertainment
• Government/Military
• Consulting
• Journalism/Broadcasting
• Communications/Advertising
• Non-Profit
• Curatorial and Archival management

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