Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
“The mission of Academic Resources is to help students go beyond SUCCEEDING at Williams, to THRIVING at Williams.”
Academic Resources is a number of services and programs that reside in various locations on campus designed to support students’ academic and intellectual engagement and to help them take full advantage of the curriculum. Our goal and higher purpose is to help students explore and take full advantage of Williams’ educational/intellectual opportunities of living and learning.
Programs & Services
The Math & Science Resource Center (MSRC)
The Peer Tutor Program
Study Skills Corps
Disability Support Services (DSS)
Learning Opportunities
Access to tutor training
Apply for tutoring and/or study groups
Sign up to be a tutor
Arrange one-on-one sessions for Study Skills (Reading, Notetaking, Test Taking, Time Management)
Register for an advanced reading & study strategy program
Apply for Disability Support Services and Accommodations
On their way to a bachelor of arts degree, Williams students major in a core area of study (like Chinese or environmental policy). Instead of academic minors, we have concentrations, which are groupings of courses around certain topics that pull from many departments and disciplines (like cognitive science, which has elements of psychology, computer science, philosophy, math, and more). Still other opportunities exist for students to pursue emerging fields, take special classes, develop their own majors, and take part in experiential education or off-campus study.
While there are no required courses at Williams, all students take a least three in arts and humanities, three in social sciences, and three in science and mathematics. All students also take at least two writing-intensive courses and one course to improve their ability to reason mathematically and abstractly. And while Williams has no formal language requirement, we do require that all students explore diversity by taking at least one course that examines how groups, cultures, and societies interact with, and challenge, one another.
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