Beginning with the class of 2026, as well as students matriculating with the class of 2026 and beyond, all students will be placed into one of the following Language Requirement Paths and must satisfy the Language Requirement with coursework taken at Dartmouth, applicable to their Path:

• Big Green Path: Students who did not demonstrate competency at matriculation in a language other than English must complete language courses up to and including a third-level language course (e.g., FREN 3). This may be completed on a Language Study Abroad (LSA) program.
• Bema Path: Students who demonstrated competency (defined as the equivalent of completing a third-level language course) at matriculation in a language taught at Dartmouth may complete the requirement with one of the following options:
  1. Complete a more advanced course in their language of competency (e.g., GERM 10, HEBR 21)
  2. Complete coursework in a different language through the second-level (e.g., ITAL 1 and ITAL 2)
  3. Complete an accelerated-beginning language course, such as ITAL 11.
     1. The above courses may be completed on an LSA program. 
• Lone Pine Path: Students who demonstrated competency (defined as the equivalent of completing a third-level language course) at matriculation in a language not taught at Dartmouth, or students who demonstrated full proficiency as a native or near-native speaker at matriculation in a language taught at Dartmouth (e.g. a bilingual English-Russian student whose high school education was conducted in Russian) may complete the requirement with one of the following options:
  1. Complete coursework in a different language through the second-level (e.g. ITAL 1 and ITAL 2)
  2. Complete an accelerated-beginning language course, such as ITAL 11.
     1. The above courses may be completed on an LSA program.
  3. Complete a Language Requirement for Proficient Speakers (LRP) course.
     1. LRP courses build metalinguistic or cross-linguistic awareness in students with appropriate language experience.   in at least one of the following areas: (a) the widely different structural features through which meaning is conveyed, (b) the irreducible differences between languages, and/or (c) the ways that linguistic diversity adds depth, insight, and value to the human experience.
     2. The LRP may include courses that analyze the structure of a single language at a deep level, thinking in a theoretical way about how the structures of that language manage to convey meaning, may qualify. Courses that do not look as deeply at the structural features of any one language, but that do look at difficulties and opportunities arising from differences between multiple languages, may also qualify. Courses that study cultural difference but do not engage specifically with linguistic difference and/or diversity do not qualify.
     3. LRP courses are reviewed and approved by the Committee on Instruction (COI). Students must follow the decision that has been made by the COI; there is no appeal of this decision, nor may students petition (then or later) to have a course count for the LRP if not previously approved by the COI. In cases where the LRP status of a course has been changed, the status in effect for the term in which the course was taken will be used.
• Students with a documented disability may seek a substitution of the language requirement from the Committee on Instruction. Students granted a substitution are required to complete the course assigned by the Committee.