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Dartmouth Row — Wentworth, Dartmouth, Thornton and Reed — are the oldest buildings on campus.
- Wentworth Hall is named after the New Hampshire colonial governor who helped Eleazar Wheelock secure the College's charter. This is where Robert Frost lived when he attended Dartmouth; when he came back to teach, he taught in the same building. Presently, the building houses offices for the Dean of the Faculty, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) program, Off-Campus Programs and the Rassias Foundation for Languages.
- Dartmouth Hall, the oldest building on campus, served as the only college building until the 1820s. It was twice destroyed by fire. After the fire in 1904, alumni raised enough money in one night to re-build the hall. When it was re-built, however, the center doors were installed but they could not be opened. Currently, the building is home to the Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian, and German Departments.
- Thornton Hall was built at the same time as Wentworth. The Departments of Philosophy and Religion can be found in this building.
- Reed Hall is the newest of the Dartmouth Row structures and it houses the Classics and Comparative Literature departments. This particular building also served as a library, museum, and the site of the first medical x-ray in the U.S.
- Bartlett Hall, just behind Reed, houses the Language Resource Center, featuring multi-media language teaching facilities. The Asian Studies Department and Asian and Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures Department are both located on the first floor.
Languages and Dartmouth
Dartmouth has a unique language program developed by John Rassias, a Dartmouth French professor. The Rassias method is very intensive and incorporates three types of teaching. In addition to attending regular language classes taught by professors and listening to language tapes in the language lab, students must attend drill sessions that are designed to help comprehension and speaking. These sessions are conducted by undergraduate teaching assistants. Languages currently taught at Dartmouth include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Graduate Programs in Arts and Sciences
In addition to its professional schools of Business, Engineering and Medicine, Dartmouth offers graduate programs in 19 disciplines as follows:
Programs Leading to the Ph.D.
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Evaluative Clinical Sciences
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Genetics
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Mathematics
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Molecular Materials
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Physics and Astronomy
- Physiology
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
Masters Programs
- Comparative Literature
- Electroacoustic Music
- Evaluative Clinical Sciences
- Earth Sciences
- Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
- Physics and Astronomy
Other graduate programs include the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business Administration.
After passing Dartmouth Row, you will come to Wheelock Street. To the left are the East Wheelock, New Hampshire, and Topliff residence halls, along with Dartmouth’s athletic facilities.
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