Trinity College Top Questions

What are the academics like at your school?

Jen

Most professors know my name and I take all of my classes in the WMGS and Philosophy departments. All of these classes are intriguing and controversial. I think that students do a lot of studying here but not in a competitive cut-throat way. a couple of really interesting classes i have taken are: Sexual Labors in the US, Beatles and the Sixties, American popular music, existentialism, african american feminism, freud, marx, etc. My education at trinity is geared towards knowledge for its own sake, but most of the services at trinity aim at getting students investment banker jobs...with the exception of the faculty. i attribute this to trinity bureaucracy not the actually teachers.

Molly

Academics at Trinity are absolutely stellar. But, like with most life experiences, the amount of effort you put in correlates to the richness of the education you receive in return. There are phenomenal classes in all courses of study-- including those that aren't typically offered at small, Liberal Arts colleges, such as Community Outreach, Urban Engagement and Engineering--but none of the majors are pre-professional. That is to say, the majors are all humanities-based, instead of career-oriented, with the intention of providing all students with a premier Liberal Arts education that is focused on enriching the minds of all students. Requirements are limited; there are just five distribution requirements, one in the Humanities, Arts, Natural Sciences, Numerical Reasoning and the Social Sciences, that each student must complete prior to graduation. As an English major, I have had the opportunity of working closely with several published authors and poets, and am always able to access professors outside the classroom.