On October 5, the UTC History Club and Euphrates Chapter held a roundtable with UTC’s history faculty on “The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election.” The History Department’s regional experts broke down the foreign policy positions of the presidential candidates for an audience of UTC students, professors, and community members.
New Faculty and Courses
The History Department is excited to welcome two new faculty members to UTC — Ryan Edwards, a scholar of modern Latin America, who recently completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and Fang Yu Hu, an expert on East Asia, who received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
The Flexibility of a History Degree
A new post from the AHA discusses the career flexibility and versatility history majors get with their degrees. History, as the author notes, “is an all-encompassing degree.”
More reasons to study history: “Why America’s Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education”
More reasons to study history, this time from The Atlantic. Bottom line: take more history classes!
Check out the documentary films from the Department’s spring break study tour in Vienna and Budapest
Over spring break 2016, Department Head John Swanson led a study tour in Vienna and Budapest for the UTC students in his class on “Two Sides of the Iron Curtain: Making Documentary Film.” The students worked in pairs and made short documentary films exploring a series of historical and social issues in Austria and Hungary.