Williams College
- Academics

Awesome

Professors cater to students' needs, open their doors all the time for people to stop by and ask questions, and seem to care deeply about intellectual enrichment.

English

The English department at Williams is phenomenal, offering numerous courses in comparative literature, criticism, and literary histories. In addition, there are many gateway courses offered in which the critical, analytic methods used in English classes are applied to other subjects. For example, I took an English class which studied contemporary fiction of the environment after the 1970s. All of the professors are extremely approachable and accessible, allowing me to receive some of the strongest recommendations I have ever had for internships.

Super Small Classes, Lots of Attention

Williams College is fantastic at creating very small classes, which can be frustrating at times in that it makes desirable classes difficult to get into, but once you're there you truly appreciate it. Professors are fantastic and go above and beyond to help the students, and sometimes there are also TAs that help as well. There are lots of seminar-type classes and even time set aside for discussion in larger lectures usually. Class time is really a necessary part of the education, as it really pulls together and establishes the material.