Summer Symposium Requirement

In the summer, a weekly series of lectures and presentations by resident and visiting scholars is part of the academic curriculum for all M.A.L.S students. The Symposium together with the student-led seminars acquaints students with a broad range of topical issues and encourages articulate discussion and debate. Each student is required to complete two symposia (MALS 120), or One Symposium and one Research Methods module (MALS 130), or One Symposium and one approved Symposium Substitute

The Symposium is open to the greater Dartmouth community and is a highlight of the summer term.

Recent Symposium topics include:

2009: The Literature and Culture of the Great Depression
2008: "1968"
2007: Prisonhouses of Democracy
2006: Challenging American Exceptionalism
2005: The Return of the Sacred: Fundamentalism and Politics
2004: Ideologies of Terrorism
2003: Race Matters
2002: From Literary to Cultural Studies
2000: The Americas in the 21st Century
1999: Globalization in the New Millennium