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Dartmouth’s liberal arts education incorporates both learning about the world and learning in the world. Often Dartmouth's global initiatives involve collaborations with other educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, or individual thought leaders. Some of this learning takes place entirely off of academic campuses, such as on Dartmouth-supported internships or on Alternative Spring Break programs. Listed below are a few examples of how members of the Dartmouth community are engaged with the world.

Alternative Spring Break in the Dominican Republic. (photo courtesy Lynn White Cloud)

Educational Service Trips

The Tucker Foundation and other areas of Dartmouth help to arrange many service opportunities for students, including annual Alternative Spring Break trips to the Dominican Republic, rural Kentucky, and migrant farms in Florida. For the past ten years Tucker has also run a ten-day service program in December to Siuna, Nicaragua. 

• Alternative Spring Break
• Cross Cultural Education Service Programs
• Project Preservation

Internships

Many students choose to engage with the world through internships in such places as U.S. embassies, world health organizations, global corporations, and a variety of non-governmental organizations. These experiences allow students to challenge their classroom learning in real-world contexts.  

• Dickey Center International Internships
• Rockefeller Center Public Affairs and Public Policy Internships
• Tucker Foundation Fellowships and Internships
• American University of Kuwait Internships
• Marshall Islands Teaching Internships

Global Leadership Program  in El Rosario, Honduras (DGLP). (photo courtesy DGLP)

Global Health

Good health is not simply a product of good health care, but reflects the well-being of societies as a whole – their economic, social, environmental, and political well-being. Dartmouth strives to bring a holistic perspective to global health by enlisting all of its professional schools and the different disciplines within the College in its Global Health programs.

• Global Health Initiative
• STAND with Haiti
• DARDAR health study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 
• Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and Social Equity
• Dartmouth International Health Group at Dartmouth Medical School
• The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science

View the video below to learn more about international opportunities at Dartmouth.

Polar Studies

Human and environmental interactions are most pronounced at the earth’s high latitudes. Polar Science at Dartmouth brings together scientists, social scientists, humanists, and policymakers in the study of and response to climate change at the poles and the human adaptations required by those who live there.

• Institute of Arctic Studies
• Graduate program in Polar Environmental Change: National Science Foundation Innovative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
• Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy — A collaboration with the University of the Arctic and the University of Alaska Fairbanks

The assessment team in Tanzania laid the groundwork for a community-based Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering project (DHE). (photo courtesy the Dickey Center for International Understanding)

Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering

Thayer School of Engineering's student-run Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering (DHE) was founded to respond to the growing need for service and engineering to help reduce global poverty.

• Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering

Center for International Business

Established in 1997, the Center for International Business at the Tuck School of Business offers language programs, research opportunities, learning expeditions around the world, and events focused on international themes such as global health care, mergers and acquisitions, or capital markets.

• Center for International Business

University Partnerships

Dartmouth institutional partnerships span the globe, increasing reach, and fostering collaborations with a truly global impact.

• American University in Kosovo - partnership with Kosovo's only private, nonprofit university
• American University of Kuwait - partnership with Kuwait's first private liberal arts university
• Matariki Network of Universities - connecting Dartmouth and seven international universities to share ideas, expertise, and best practices