<p>When I first applied to Dartmouth I thought that the science requirements were not going to be that bad but now I'm changing my mind. I am definitely a humanities person and was wondering if Dartmouth had science courses that were for humanities people like me. So are the science distribution requirements overwhelming?</p>
<p>there are a TON of easy science classes. It’s kind of embarrassing. It’s really not an issue at all. There are sci classes whose sole purpose (not that the college will admit it) is to give people an easy sci distrib w/o actually doing any science.</p>
<p>I don’t know anyone who’s found them overwhelming, but I’m sure about 500 of them will pop up on this board now…</p>
<p>That being said there are only 4 “math/sci/tech” requirements vs 6 humanities-type requirements and all the science kids seem to deal with it just fine too.</p>
<p>examples of famously “Easy” science classes humanities kids take include Bio 4-“dinosaurs” (this one is the actual title of the class) Astro 3 (has been described as stargazing with lab) and one earth science course(can’t remember the number) that is known as “rocks for jocks”. There are also courses in other departments, like Phil 26 “Philosophy of computers” that give you science credits (in this case a TAS). I’d say that through a bit of sifting you can easily fulfill your science distrib without suffering through something like a Bio 11 or Chem 5.</p>
<p>Stars for stoners, Rocks for jocks,Oceanography, Dinosaurs, Lasers in Life (Actual course title), The engineering courses relating to homeland security…don’t worry about it.</p>