Advice please - from a history major

[Jelx]

(this turned out longer than I thought it would - bear with me please)

 

Hi,

 

i'm a history major at the University of Michigan - Dearborn Campus. I've been having some problems lately because i've become increasingly uninterested in law, politics & religion (which are things that history seems to rotate around) and more interested in the sciences.

 

I come from a highschool that was very underfunded in science and, as a result, don't know much about Biology, Chemistry or Physics, eventhough I still have a fascination with them. I've tried taking a college level Bio class and only received a B-, although I found the subjects more fascinating than any of the history (philosophy+politics based) courses.

 

Another problem, besides being bad at science, is that I don't really want to participate in science so much as I want to teach it and learn more about it. I still consider myself a "social science," rather than a natural science student with a strong interest in history. This got me to realize that one thing that seems to be missing, at least at my school, is a history of science/medicine discipline. I've seen schools that allow students to specialize in the history of law, history of military, history of government & even the history of religion (normally american religion), but i've never once saw a graduate program that allowed someone to major in the history of science/medicine.

 

I'd love to be able to teach and study the history of scientific and medical developments, including studying great scientists of the past, like Einstein, Galileo Galilei, etc... but it appears history departments simply don't have this

 

There are, of course, courses that focus on the history of medicine, history of physics, etc... but at my school they are only taught about once every two years for only one semester. Which path do you guys, as "students of science," think I should take? Just stick with general history (which for all purposes is either history of law/politics/government or history of religion) or try to mix it up a bit? Possibly major in history with a minor in biology? (It might hurt my GPA though)

 

Thanks in advance for any replies

 

EDIT: I was just looking over my college catalogue and realized they even have an art history and music history major... for students who aren't artists but would simply like to study their history, yet still no science history major.