Arts and Humanities
Dartmouth’s robust offerings in the arts and humanities intersect with research and creative projects across campus and a thriving arts scene enhanced by the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Hood Museum of Art.
Art History
Courses explore the visual cultures of diverse peoples, places, and times.
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Classics
The department offers a wide-ranging curriculum taught by a research faculty firmly committed to excellence in undergraduate education.
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East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies
Courses are designed to provide students with a solid working capability in the language as well as a familiarity with literature and culture of the area.
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English and Creative Writing
With an emphasis on communication and critical thinking, courses in English and creative writing complement a variety of majors.
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Film and Media Studies
The department emphasizes multidisciplinary approaches to the history, theory, and making of film, television, games, graphic arts, digital art, and data visualizations within a liberal arts context.
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French and Italian
Dartmouth is nationally recognized as an outstanding institution at which to study language and literature.
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German Studies
The department offers a curriculum that appeals to a wide range of interests.
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Leslie Center for the Humanities
The Leslie Center for the Humanities advances the study of meaning, purpose, and creativity in the human experience.
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Literary Arts Bridge
This new initiatives fosters a community of writers across genres.
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Music
The program draws together a close-knit community of makers and thinkers concerned with the visceral and social force of sound.
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Philosophy
The department offers a wide array of courses that reflects the diversity of philosophical topics, participants to these debates, and student interest in philosophy.
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Religion
The department offers a rich list of courses on a subject encountered in many other departments, because religion is at the core of all cultures and societies.
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Spanish and Portuguese
Studying other languages through literature, theater, music, film, visual artifacts, philosophy, and other cultural objects and texts offers deep intellectual insight into other people’s worldviews and mindsets.
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Studio Art
Studio art courses at Dartmouth offer students a serious and sustained exploration of the creative processes in visual art.
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Theater
The department empowers students with the critical and creative tools, artistic courage, and human empathy that are essential to engaging with the world through embodied storytelling.
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Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
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- Colleen Glenney Boggs
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Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities
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- Janet L. Vaughan
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A&S Division Coordinator - Arts & Humanities
Rethinking Thomas Mann: A Global Lens on a German Icon
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A Revolutionary Approach to Metaphysics
Philosopher Amie Thomasson reconceptualizes metaphysics as a practical discipline that shapes how we reason, communicate, and navigate the world.
Theater in Practice: Dartmouth’s Stratford Festival Residency
A new partnership immerses theater students in the professional world of North America’s largest classical repertory theater company.
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