History Major and Minor
The purpose of history as a discipline is to examine all aspects of civilization, particularly humanity as the maker of institutions. Humanity is the creative force, which has managed to survive and even thrive as a result of its ability to adapt itself and its institutions to changing circumstances. History is accordingly concerned with humanity’s ideas about itself and the social, economic, political, intellectual, aesthetic, and religious institutions that it creates to give substance to its beliefs. This study of humanity relative to time provides students with the background they need to understand themselves and their culture.
Gender Studies Minor
The Gender Studies minor allows students to explore the multiple ways our identities as men and women are constituted, compelled, constrained and contested. Students will benefit from an interdisciplinary approach requiring critical, analytical thinking that can be applied not only to their own lives but to the world around them.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor
Like any liberal arts major, history develops skills of analysis, synthesis, writing, and speaking. But only history is the study of change over time. It heightens your sensitivity to the uniqueness of individual personalities and of significant human events.
History at Lynchburg College offers a stimulating and rigorous program that provides opportunities for exposure to all aspects of history in a friendly, personal, and supportive setting.The history program has close ties with the interdisciplinary major in international relations and the minor in medieval and Renaissance studies.
The History Program is located in the History House, 505 Brevard Street behind the Library.
