History majors wishing to concentrate in the history of science need not meet the departmental prerequisites or distribution requirements. But they must take 12 courses that satisfy the following pattern of requirements:

1. Two courses in science, engineering, or mathematics in addition to those used to fill the University's science distribution requirement.
2. Four of the following courses:
   • 290 The Scientific Worldview of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
   • 291 The Scientific Revolution and European Order, 1500-1750
   • 292 Science in the Modern World
   • 393 Science in American History from the Civil War to the Present
   • 394 The Rise of Modern Biomedicine: Global Trends in Health and Healing, 1650- 2000
   • 396 History of Biology
   • 398 Technologies and Their Societies: Historical Perspectives
   • 490 Perspectives on the Nature and Development of Sciences
   • 491 Problems in the Development of the Physical Sciences
   • 492 Problems in the Development of the Life Sciences
   • With the permission of the departmental representative, one of these courses may be replaced by a cognate course from another department, for example, in philosophy or sociology of science.
3. Four other history courses.
4. The independent work and departmental comprehensive examination requirements are the same as for all other departmental majors.
   

For further information, please refer to the Princeton University Undergraduate Announcement