To this end, Dartmouth arranges for students to live and study in other countries.
Students are thus better able to understand the thoughts and lives of the people of another country.
Students who place into German 3 have satisfied the prerequisite but are encouraged to audit German 2 close to their departure. Portuguese 3 with a grade of B- or better, or equivalent preparation. Students exempt from Spanish 2 and students who have taken Spanish 2 more than six months prior to departure will be required to audit a special language drill. They study language, civilization and culture, and literature during the term. They read foreign literary texts and learn to articulate the sense of the material in that language.