The Social Studies Department at ESA wishes to prepare its students to become adults with a profound understanding of their society and their own place in it while also providing as broad a historical perspective as possible. This is best achieved by teaching students to view society as a whole by understanding how human beliefs and activities are interrelated. Students will focus on the relationships between events, causes, and field of activity, rather than seeing them as independent of each other. These relationships are taught by specific examples, cases, and situations from the past. The goal in teaching history is not for them to merely learn events from the past, but to also develop the critical and analytical thinking skills that will allow them to succeed at the next level of their education.

Graduation requirement: World History, Western Civilization, U.S. History, Civics