The Bowdoin curriculum was designed to ensure that you receive an exceptional liberal arts education—one that allows you to specialize, while also building skills and connections across many subjects and areas of study.
To qualify for your Bowdoin degree, you will need to pass thirty-two full-credit courses, including:
So what are distribution areas, anyway? What about divisions?
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Distribution and Division Requirements
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The curriculum is built so that you can fulfill these requirements by the end of your sophomore year, which is also when you will declare a major.
Also, none of the classes that fulfill these requirements exist in a vacuum—if you enroll in SOC 2239: Science, Technology, and Power in order to fulfill your DPI requirement, and then later decide that you want to be a sociology major or minor, that course counts towards your total number of sociology credits.
Your liberal arts advisor will work with you to make sure that you are completing your requirements at the right time, and can help suggest classes that you might enjoy, and that may connect with your areas of interest.
Before you move to the next section, practice searching for courses that fulfill these requirements using the BOW STU Find Course Sections command in Workday, and filtering by "Course Tags". More information can be found on this page.
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