May 18, 2001

Interdisciplinary Course at Dartmouth Tackles Fact and Fiction on Mars

In Ray Bradbury's "The Silent Towns," a story in The Martian Chronicles, the last man on Mars hears the telephone ring and winds up on a farcical blind date. Such a puzzling encounter might well describe how many undergraduates feel while navigating a college's core curriculum.

To help guide students along the cosmic path to choosing a major, professors at Dartmouth have designed several interdisciplinary courses, including this one.

A doctor, a planetary geochemist, and a

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