Santayana History is one of the traditional pillars of the liberal arts education.
History is an intrinsically interesting and satisfying subject.
It is interdisciplinary in nature and borrows from the humanities and social sciences to provide breadth and depth with which to understand our world. It develops skills in critical thinking and reading, historical analysis and synthesis, narrative and interpretive writing. It provides an excellent foundation for graduate work and professional study in business and law, education and library science. Graduates can find gainful and rewarding employment in these areas, as well as museum work, editing and publishing, public service and policy analysis. They are among recent Barat graduates with degrees in History.