09-28-2008, 05:58 PM
Quote:I guess that studying twentieth-century history is more useful to get work as a journalist or policy expert, but studying one area of history should give you the research skills to get a background in another area if you need it.Yes, that is true, but I am not convinced (and here I disagree with Jasper) that a future employer is aware of this. And probably, the manager is right: a historian studying the twentieth century does not spend a quarter of his time to learning a dead language, which gives him more time to acquire skills, or a living language.
