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Dartmouth's plan of year-round operation challenges the undergraduate to
define personal educational goals and provides considerable opportunity to
shape a formal educational program which best suits these goals. Since credit
for 35 courses is a requirement for the bachelor's degree, first-year students
arrive at Dartmouth normally needing 12 terms to graduate.
Every entering student will spend the first year, consisting of the fall,
winter, and spring terms, in residence in Hanover (three so-called R-terms). At
the end of his or her Dartmouth career, each senior also will finish with the
fall, winter, and spring terms in residence (three more R-terms as a regular
student in Hanover). Every student also must be in residence in Hanover
(R-term) for the summer term between the sophomore spring and the junior fall.
Leave-terms (L-terms) are terms during which students are not studying for
Dartmouth Credit.
Students may also study off-campus for credit. These terms are designated as
O-terms for those terms spent studying off-campus (usually abroad) in
Dartmouth-sponsored programs, X-terms for study on one of the U.S. campuses
with which Dartmouth has exchange programs, and T-terms for study on other
campuses for transfer credit through students' individual arrangements.
Students with enough credits on entry may be able to work out patterns that
will allow graduation after three years, or in four years but with fewer than
twelve terms.
For more information check out the D-Plan brochure.
Sample Enrollment Pattern:
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Summer |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
| '07-'08 |
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R |
R |
R |
| '08-'09 |
L |
R |
O |
R |
| '09-'10 |
R |
R |
X |
L |
| '10-'11 |
L |
R |
R |
R |
| (BOLD = required residence
term) |
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