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Careers for UMass Boston American Studies Majors

Career opportunities for students of American Studies are as diverse and multifaceted as the program itself. Students interested in law, government, museum and library work, media and communications, business (national and international), teaching (elementary through university), and public and social services have benefited from majors and minors in the study of American society and culture.

Graduates of our program have gone on to graduate programs in law, library science, international relations, history, and American Studies; they have careers as high school and college teachers, lawyers, real estate consultants, business managers, archivists, tour guides, and administrators of educational, state and federal government programs, including the Metropolitan District Commission, the Food Stamp Program, and the National Park Service. A double major, or a minor in American Studies, is particularly useful for students who want to enrich and broaden their majors in Anthropology, Art, English, History, Management, Political Science and Sociology.

From data gathered at institutions that have kept track of their majors, we know that many American Studies graduates have found employment in the public sector. Some of our own past graduates have worked for the National Park Service, the Food Stamp program, as legislative aides, in museums, library, and historical societies, as well as the foreign service and the international departments of private companies who staff require expertise in "telling America's story."

Click on the image below to see what some of our graduates are doing now.