As interest in the humanities among undergraduates nationwide wanes, professor Tania Convertini challenges fellow educators to look beyond course content to ask: "How does innovation in format help bring students on board?"

Dartmouth students will provide about a hundred area high-school students with a morning of Dartmouth-style language instruction, blending class work and drills, in nine languages, including French and Italian.

Imagine a couple of college students hanging out after class and tweeting about popular music. Now imagine them claiming that they’re working on their foreign language homework.