<p>Thinking about majoring in history with a pre-med intent, how is the history department at Bowdoin?(also hows the philosophy, sociology majors) any feedback is welcome!</p>
<p>I’m a junior at Bowdoin and absolutely loving my history major. I’ve focused in US history but have taken really interesting classes in African history (“Christianity and Islam in West Africa”) and Asia (“The Emergence of Modern Japan.”) My professors have been incredibly accessible and most of my classes have been under 20 students. I actually didn’t like history in high school, but the way that my Bowdoin professors have had me engage with primary source material has been super super cool.</p>
<p>My favorite classes so far have been “Trials of the Century” and “Globalization and It’s Critics.”</p>
<p>Thank you for your input! History is really looking good! but is it hard for a history major to fufill the pre med requirement?</p>
<p>No, it’s not. I have a friend who did it a few years ago.</p>
<p>The history major requirement is 10 courses, and I think pre-med is around 8 or 10. You’ll be taking 32 classes at Bowdoin, so that still gives you plenty of free space for electives. It would be easier to be a bio major and pre-med because there are many pre-med classes that would overlap with the bio major (and there are none that overlap between history and pre-med that I know of), but just because it’d be easier to overlap bio and pre-med does not mean that doing history and pre-med would be hard.</p>
<p>Gotcha! Thanks for the advice I am defintly going to look into History since it seems like something I would be genuinely interested in asm a major thanks again for ur help</p>