These pages are designed to provide information and answer your questions about the undergraduate and graduate programs in History at Hunter College of the City University of New York .
History is the record of all human experience.
Its study is a first step in learning about ourselves and our society - about economics and politics, psychology and sociology, mathematics and science, the arts and the humanities. For students whose undergraduate major is history, career opportunities are numerous and varied. Medical, law, and other professional schools favor such applicants as history majors because of their broad background in liberal arts. Beyond the purely practical consideration of a profession, the study of history is exciting in its own right. The long record of human experience waits to be relived and reevaluated by students for whom the rewards of learning arise from a heightened awareness of both their distant and recent heritage.