达特茅斯大学是全国公认的学习语言和文学的优秀大学。传统上，法文和意大利文系负责引导学生学习其他文化。与美国的本科生相比，我们是最大的外国文学系之一。我们提供各种课程，从入门语言到文学调查再到单主题高级研讨会。学生可以通过本系选修专业或辅修专业。每年在法文和意大利总共开展十项为期很长的学习计划。学生们一直引用这些程序，这些程序是达特茅斯职业生涯的最高成就，这些程序的建立和设计与校内课程相协调。
Dartmouth is nationally recognized as an outstanding college at which to study language and literature. The Department of French and Italian has traditionally taken a lead in efforts to initiate students to other cultures. We are one of the largest foreign literature departments relative to undergraduate population in the United States. We offer a wide array of courses, from beginning language to surveys of literature to single-topic advanced seminars. Students may elect either a major or a minor through the department. The French and Italian Department offers approximately eight term-long study programs located throughout France and Italy every year. Students consistently cite these programs, which are well-established and designed to coordinate with on-campus courses, as high points in their Dartmouth careers. Includes two of the principal Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese). Majors will be required to take ten major-level courses, six of which shall be selected from the primary language, and four from the secondary language. If the primary language is French, the six courses must include French 10 and one course from French 22, 23, 24, 25 (to be completed by the end of junior year).