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Anthropologist Eduardo Merlo with Alaina Smith '09 (partially hidden) and Karen Sen '10 during the Spanish Language Study Abroad program based in Puebla, Mexico, in winter 2008. (photo by Kawakahi Amina '09)

Dartmouth is among the top schools in the nation for study abroad, with more than half of undergraduates participating before they graduate. Dartmouth offers more than 40 programs in 24 countries covering six continents. (Scroll down to see the list.) The flexibility of the year-round D-Plan offers many students, including Division I athletes, the opportunity to study abroad. 

Dartmouth faculty members help design, develop, and lead the programs offered by more than 20 academic departments. Language Study Abroad programs (LSAs) are sponsored by language departments, Foreign Study Programs (FSPs) are focused on both language and non-language disciplines, and Exchange Programs (EPs) are administered by (but not led by) Dartmouth faculty members. 

The programs include:

 

Katie Moerlein '08 (left), Sarah Theledi (middle), and Nathan Mazonson '09 (right) at the home of Theledi and her husband, Simon Nkuna, in Pretoria, South Africa. Moerlein lived with Theledi and Nkuna during the Environmental Studies Foreign Study Program in fall 2008. (photo by Steve Smith)

Argentina

• Spanish FSP, Buenos Aires

Austria

• Music FSP, Vienna

Brazil

• Portuguese FSP, Salvador
• Portuguese LSA, Salvador

China

• Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures FSP, Beijing

Costa Rica

• Biological sciences FSP, Cayman Islands and Costa Rica

Czech Republic

• Geography FSP, Prague

Dartmouth students traveled across the Sahara Desert on camels after spending an evening at a Bedouin camp on the fall 2010 Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures FSP based in Tangier, Morocco. "Our teachers and TAs have done a great job keeping us busy so that we can come to understand Moroccan culture in greater depth," says Blakeley Brown '12, a linguistics major and one of 12 students on the program. (photo courtesy Blakeley Brown '12)

France

• French FSP, Paris
• French LSA, Lyon
• French LSA+, Toulouse

Germany

• German studies FSP, Berlin
• German studies LSA, Berlin
• German studies EP

Greece

• Classics FSP

India

• Asian and Middle Eastern studies, women's and gender studies FSP, Hyderabad

Ireland

• English FSP, Dublin

Jesse Rieb '13, Jacob Hickson '13, Stephen Chung '13, Madeline Sturm '13, and David Jiang '12 on the fall 2010 Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures FSP based at Beijing Normal University in China. Hickson, an economics major, says, "Prior to matriculating, I set several goals for my college career, two of which included study Chinese and travel abroad; naturally, this program suited my needs more than adequately, particularly given Dartmouth's history with the program and tradition of excellence in study abroad programs." (photo courtesy Jacob Hickson '13)

Italy

• Art history FSP, Rome
• Classics FSP, Rome
• Economics EP at Bocconi University, Milan
• The Honorable Frank J. Guarini '46 NIAF Italian LSA, Rome
• The Honorable Frank J. Guarini '46 NIAF Italian LSA+, Rome

Japan

• Japanese LSA+, Tokyo
• Japanese EP at Keio University, Tokyo
• Japanese EP at Kanda University, Chiba

Jerusalem

• Hebrew LSA+ (on hold, transfer credits available)

Korea

• Asian and Middle Eastern studies EP, Seoul

Mexico

• Spanish LSA, Puebla

Morocco

• Arabic FSP, Tangier
• Asian and Middle Eastern studies FSP, Fez

New Zealand

• Anthropology, linguistics and cognitive science FSP, Auckland

Maia Pfeffer ’11, Hannah Kattermann ’12, Ruthie Welch ’13, and Emily Tomlinson ’13 at the Brandenburger Tor during the fall 2010 German studies Foreign Study Program in Berlin. “Studying history in Berlin is amazing because the city has such a rich and complex past, the traces of which survive in the city’s architecture,” says Pfeffer, a German studies major. The group read Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape before arriving in Berlin. (photo courtesy Maia Pfeffer ’11)

Russia

• Russian LSA+, St. Petersburg

South Africa

• Environmental studies FSP, Pretoria

South Korea

• Asian and Middle Eastern studies EP at Yonsei University, Seoul

Spain

• Spanish LSA, Barcelona
• Spanish FSP, Madrid

Thailand

• Engineering sciences EP at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Trinidad

• English FSP, St. Augustine

Students and a professor gather in front of the Colosseum during the the fall 2010 Honorable Frank J. Guarini '46 Italian LSA in Rome. "I'm really enjoying getting the chance to live with a home-stay mom, I feel like I've really formed a strong bond with her," says Olivia Durr '13. "Plus, it's pretty cool that my daily commute goes by the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Imperial Forum, and Piazza Venezia." (photo courtesy Olivia Durr '13)

United Kingdom

• English FSP, Glasgow
• Film and media studies FSP, Edinburgh
• Government FSP, London 
• History FSP, London
• Music FSP, London
• Religion FSP, Edinburgh
• The Rockefeller Center's EP at Keble College, Oxford University
• Philosophy FSP, Edinburgh
• Theater FSP, London

United States

• Earth sciences FSP, western states
• Government FSP, Washington, D.C.

There are additional exchange programs (EPs) at McGill University in Canada, at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and in various locations in Germany. Within the United States, there are EPs with Morehouse and Spelman colleges in Georgia, the University of California San Diego, and eleven liberal arts colleges in New England.

See the Off-Campus Programs site for a complete list.