History

Overview

The study of history at Lewis is more than just memorizing dates. History reveals human nature over time, and allows us to understand ourselves and others in context with what has occurred in the past. The capacity to value history and understand its impact on today’s world strengthens professional skills in all areas and fields. The historical method facilitates research, strengthens competitive intelligence and enriches the analysis of data over time. It enables us to analyze economic, social and political events in changing contexts over time, and it allows managers to understand and deal with change and continuity.

The Department of History at Lewis has incorporated the five components of the school’s Mission into the program major. History fosters knowledge by studying the story of humanity through great persons, events, ideas, institutions, achievements, and failures. The promotion of wisdom comes through the study of recurrent values, concerns, and experiences of the human community. Those areas then work to teach fidelity through imparting honesty, precision, and responsibility regarding the evidence presented.

History teaches justice by studying the great issues which have faced humanity, of which integrity and social responsibility are the greatest. Finally, history fosters association by bringing students and faculty together to collaboratively address the issues posed by text, readings, lectures and experience. Another aspect that sets Lewis apart is the University’s interdisciplinary and global approach to teaching history. The department offers courses in African, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern and Latin American history to provide a truly global perspective. Many schools do not offer the variety of history classes that Lewis does, and the department offers interdisciplinary courses as well including the History of Science, the History of Ideas, the History of Women, the History of Religious Thought and the History of Revolutions.

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