This is Dartmouth's only off-campus program in any Scandinavian country. It will allow students to benefit from the experience of a large, urban university in a country with social, political and economic systems that are much different from those in the United States. Students will be able to take courses that often focus on these systems. In particular, the Scandinavian countries are noted for having the most egalitarian economic systems in the world, social democratic governments, extensive welfare states and in most cases very liberal cultural traditions. Dartmouth students will go to Copenhagen only during the fall term.
All courses are in the social sciences.
Students will be expected to take the normal course load of a full-time student. Because the University of Copenhagen is on a semester system, Dartmouth students will take three or four courses, depending on the number of credits granted per course at Copenhagen. Most Danes speak English fluently. For this reason and because the program's courses are taught in English, Dartmouth students will not require language training in Danish. Indeed, Copenhagen is a very easy city to manage for English speaking travelers.