Marketable Skills

UT Tyler Department of History

Degree and Major: History B.A./B.S.

After completing the History degree program at UT Tyler, the student can

Soft Skills:

Hard Skills:

Unique Features of Program (what separates UT Tyler’s program from others)

  • Address challenging problems and issues through: creative thinking, inquiry, innovation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information including numerical data or observable facts.
  • Connect current events to their historical context through historical thinking and critical analysis
  • Career supports throughout the entire degree program.
  • A strong student-faculty ratio of about 18:1 at the undergraduate level allowing for a personalized educational experience for students
  • Respond in an ethical manner by connecting data, behavior, choices, consequences to ethical theories.
  • Formulate solutions to current problems through application of historical examples
  • Applied practice on campus in community with archival work, historical interviews, public presentations, and more
  • Communicate ideas effective through written, oral, and visual delivery modes.
  • Analyze a variety of sources, viewpoints, and sources to synthesize and propose solutions to real-world problems
 
  • Work effectively in teams.
  • Apply knowledge communication of data analysis through a variety of media, including not just oral reports and written papers, but graphical formats like InfoGraphics in order to communicate knowledge in a variety of ways for a wide range of audiences
 
  • Advance the human condition through learned international cultural competence, knowledge of civil responsibility, and a foundational knowledge of human behavior.
 
  • A department whose faculty offer a wide range of courses

 

Degree and Major: History M.A.

After completing the History M.A. degree program at UT Tyler, the student can

Soft Skills:

Hard Skills:

Unique Features of Program (what separates UT Tyler’s program from others)

  • Address challenging problems and issues through: creative thinking, inquiry, innovation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information including numerical data or observable facts.

Advanced knowledge in history for entry to doctoral programs.

Teach history at the junior college level

  • Career supports throughout the entire degree program.
  • A strong student-faculty ratio of about 6:1 at the graduate level, allowing for a personalized educational experience for students
  • Respond in an ethical manner by connecting data, behavior, choices, consequences to ethical theories.
   
  • Communicate ideas effective through written, oral, and visual delivery modes.

Present their own original research at regional and national conferences.

Students can to present their own original research at regional and national conferences like the World History Association of Texas Conference and the National Phi Alpha Theta Conference

  • Work effectively in teams.
   
  • Advance the human condition through learned international cultural competence, knowledge of civil responsibility, and a foundational knowledge of human behavior.

Formulate solutions to current global problems through research. Analyze shared qualities and differences in cultures, perspectives, and ways of thinking about the world in the present and the past.