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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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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Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
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- Samuel Levey
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Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Arts and Humanities
Dartmouth Professor of Philosophy
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- Janet L. Vaughan
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A&S Division Coordinator - Arts & Humanities
Colleen Boggs Named Next Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
The literature scholar and accomplished administrator will begin the new role on July 1.
Robert Baum Elected to the American Society for the Study of Religion
With his third book, the professor offers the first comprehensive study of the earliest history of African religions.
What the German Romantics Can Teach Us About Sustainability
In her scholarship and teaching, German studies professor Meryem Deniz bridges the natural sciences with the humanities.
Arts and Sciences Grant Management
Find expert guidance in grant proposal development and support in the financial oversight of awarded projects.