After Guilford
“As a history major at Guilford College I was able to look, not just at the dates and famous events of the past, but to also consider the human stories that make up the true fabric of history.”
- Rachel Jeffers ’09
Daniel Hood ’11
“Going into graduate school for history everyone warned me that it was going to be hard, and it is quite challenging, but the skills required to deal with the difficult aspects were all ones I learned at Guilford. Reading theory, thinking critically, and challenging traditional historical narratives are all crucial facets of modern historical studies, and I learned to do all of that at Guilford, which makes the challenges of graduate school nowhere close to insurmountable.”
Spencer Musick ’11
“Guilford’s history faculty take a highly personalized and student-centered approach to instruction that is enabled by the small-class sizes. I also learned to work with professors effectively outside of class in a one-on-one setting throughout the course of the major. This provided me with a foretaste of the student-faculty relationship at the graduate-level, and allowed me to hit the ground running in an academic environment that many require a period of adjustment to.”
Meredith Ward ’10
“As a future history teacher, I feel that the knowledge I gained taking courses at the Guilford History Department provided me with the theoretical and practical foundation to launch a teaching career of my own. These courses weren’t about rote memorization- I learned to look at the thread of events throughout history and the implications they have today.”
Eddie Guimont ’09
“The small class sizes and emphasis on the Socratic method in Guilford classes was similar to how graduate seminars are conducted, and the research and writing intensive aspect of the Guilford history degree prepared me for writing graduate level essays. The honors thesis I wrote at Guilford was also extremely close to a major graduate paper.”
Rachel Jeffers ’09
“As a history major at Guilford College I was able to look, not just at the dates and famous events of the past, but to also consider the human stories that make up the true fabric of history. I have continued and expanded on this approach to history in the Masters in Public Humanities program at Brown University where I have been focusing on public history education and oral history methods in museums and cultural institutions. I look forward to continuing this work after graduating from Brown in May 2012 and have been pleasantly surprised by the impact stories have on people’s connection to the past and how they think about the future.”
