I don’t see a college with a non open curriculum as being bad for a history major. Most schools have fairly open gen eds. So say a college requires math, foreign language, science, English, social science, and maybe the visual and performing arts. All of these, including math (statistics anyone?), can compliment the education of a history major. Want to study the perceptions of the American Civil Rights movement in Spain? Well gosh, an understanding of the Spanish language and culture would sure be useful. How science shaped policy throughout the ages? Hmm, sounds like a job for environmental science or perhaps biology, geology, etc. English’s practicality should be fairly self explanatory. Certainly there are numerous examples of renowned historians, as well as majors who translated their education into other fields, who came from non open curriculum schools.