In a world where men and women tend to change careers and jobs multiple times throughout life, history provides just the kind of education – one that develops transferable skills – that one needs. Trends in employment come and go. A history major provides a “trend-proof” education, empowering students with skills they can use for anything and apply to a lifetime of learning and professional growth.
WLC’s history faculty have earned graduate degrees from top-level institutions and regularly
present at conferences and publish books and articles. Our faculty members are teaching
scholars who personally interact with students, get to know them, involve students in
scholarship, and use their scholarship to enhance the student’s experience in the classroom.
What Makes the Program Distinctive?
All WLC history courses are taught from a Lutheran theological perspective. Instruction is
shaped according to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions – a focus virtually unique in
American higher education. God reveals himself to us in history – salvation history for example
– though his hand in historical events is often hidden from our understanding. While history
often reveals the consequences of the fall into sin and shows God’s people bearing the cross,
Christ’s atonement and the Gospel are at the heart of history. His people cling to Christ’s cross
in the best and worst times of human history, always looking through faith in Christ to the
world to come.