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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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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