From the Provost

Uniting opportunities for practice and theory in every discipline, academics at Dartmouth are innovative, interdisciplinary, international, individualized, and structured to foster the most important features of a liberal arts education. Each student's experience is distinguished by breadth, depth, and personal connections with top faculty. Our faculty has a rich tradition of providing students with opportunities to stretch the boundaries of knowledge in their majors, while also exposing them to a curriculum that fosters educational diversity.

At the undergraduate level, this is accomplished through shared experiences in the first year, courses on writing and rhetoric, opportunities for hands-on project learning, and creative practice. Students are encouraged to experience the richness of the world in an unparalleled suite of study abroad programs led by Dartmouth faculty. Throughout the curriculum, students take advantage of opportunities for individual discovery, and other courses or experiences that advance fundamental skills of quantitative thinking, problem solving, analyzing, creating art and music, and communicating.

At the graduate level, our Master's and Ph.D. students engage in a curriculum that fosters their own creativity as well as the intellectual partnerships with the faculty with whom they work. Students graduate with an academic experience that has prepared them to have an impact on the world, to become leaders in their field and to master an explosion of complex knowledge.

Carol L. Folt
Provost
The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences