Stephanie Brooke Smith, a Dartmouth College student in the class of 2008 from Fayetteville, Ga., is studying Italian in Rome during the Spring 2006 term as part of the College's Language Study Abroad Program. Smith is the daughter of Stephen B. Smith and Nancy Y. Smith.

Dartmouth's off-campus programs are designed to expand the college's curriculum into new areas of academic and cultural understanding. Through these programs, students are given the chance to study a particular topic in depth. Dartmouth's off-campus offerings include 44 programs in 17 countries and the United States. Approximately 65 percent of Dartmouth undergraduates take advantage of the college's foreign study opportunities.