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Dartmouth Without the Core: A Prospectus of Courses for a Dartmouth '98

By Andrew Culp and Kevin Robbins | Wednesday, May 15, 1996

The following is a course of study that fulfills all of Dartmouth's major and distributive requirements in four years. Courses are listed for each term, along with their times and the distributive requirement(s) which they fulfill. 'Maj' indicates a course credited towards the major, which is Spanish in this hypothetical student's prospectus.

The courses a Dartmouth student takes are structured around a system of required course types, not specific required courses. In addition to English 5, a freshman seminar, and proficiency in a foreign language, the College currently requires all students to fulfill certain General Education Requirements to graduate. These include three World Culture requirements (European [EU], North American [NA], Non-Western [NW]), one interdiciplinary requirement [I], and ten general distributive requirements that may overlap with the previous two catagories. These ten distributive requirements are comprised of one course in the Arts [ART], one in Literature [LIT], one in Philosphical or Historical Analysis or Religion [PHR], one in International or Comparative Study [INT], two in Social Analysis [SOC], one in Quantitative and Deductive Sciences [QDS], two in the Natural Sciences [SCI], and one in Technology or Applied Science [TAS]. One of these sciences coures must be a laboratory course. The Divisional Councils and the Committee on Instruction determine what requirement(s) each course fulfills.

This hypothetical course prospectus is not intended to be an indictment of the listed courses or the professors who teach them. Rather, it is intended to serve as evidence that, despite Dartmouth's sometimes complicated graduation requirements, it is possible for a student to graduate having taken a course of study that is neither traditional nor particularly diverse.

If intellectual diversity is indeed the goal of the College's course requirements, as it has maintained, it seems unusual that a student may focus his studies narrowly on the experiences of one or two ethnic groups and still fulfill the requirements to graduate.

FALL 1994

9 Spanish 1

2A Music 10: Oral Tradition Musicianship

10A Religion 14: Women and Religions of Africa
[see below]


WINTER 1995

9 Anthropology 40: Indigenous Peoples and Cultures of North America [see below]

10 Spanish 2

arr English 5


SPRING 1995

9 Spanish 3

11 Drama 7: Politics of Art, Drama, and Theatre in the 1960's

10A African American Studies 21: Women in Africa


FALL 1995

10 Spanish 9 (former 7): Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach

11 Spanish 30: Intro to Hispanic Literature I: Middle Ages Ò 1700

10 A Women's Studies 33: Reclaiming Pocahontas: Contemporary Native American Women's Lives


WINTER 1996

9 Engines 3: Enviromental Science & Technology

10 College Course 3: Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies [see below]

11 Spanish 31: Introduction to Hispanic Literature II: 18thÒ19th Century


SPRING 1996

9 Math 5: Pattern-Interdisciplinary Course in Textile Design and Elementary Group Theory

10 Spanish 37: Writing Spanish

11 Spanish 20: Spanish Language Advanced Training
through Contemperary Spanish Culture


SUMMER 1996

11 Earth Sciences 5: Natural Disasters and Catastrophes

2A Spanish 73: Literature and Social Protest: Alienation,Dictatorship, Revolution and Disillusionment in 20th Century Latin America.


FALL 1996

FOREIGN STUDY PROGRAM — MADRID

arr Spanish 24: Spanish Culture: Contemporary Issues

arr Spanish 34: Spanish Civilization

arr Spanish 36: Studies in Contemporary Spanish Literature


WINTER 1997

OFF TERM

SPRING 1997

11 Anthropology 47: Peoples of Oceana

10 Earth Sciences 1: Introduction to Earth Science

2A Film Studies 46: Topics in Television


FALL 1997

10 Spanish 60: Exile, Repression and Writing in Post Civil War Spain

arr Women's Studies 10: Sex, Gender, and Society

2A Spanish 56: Don Quixote


WINTER 1998

10A Spanish 52: Eroticism and Spirituality in Early Modern Spain

arr Women's Studies 20: Roots of Feminism: A Historical, Multicultural Perspective

2A Antropology 54: Religious Innovation in the African American World [see below]


SPRING 1998

2A Spanish 72: Latin American and Latina Women: Gender, Culture and Literature

10A Enviromental Studies 72: Nature Writers [see below]

2 Spanish 78: Living in the Borderlands: Latino/a Culture and Identity

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