Denison University Top Questions

I am a Psychology and Spanish double major. I've had some really interesting and challenging classes within and outside of my majors. The profs are for the most part wonderful. Most of them are very down to earth and personable. They're very accessible and invested in their students. I've only had a few professors I couldn't stand, but luckily there aren't many on campus. My only complaint is that some classes are hard to get into. Class sizes are kept small, so the popular classes fill up very quickly and freshman and sophomore year it is kind of difficult to get all the classes you want.

Every professor knows my name and most seem to have an interest in my success. I have never had an issue meeting with a faculty member, except for my advisor! I wouldn't suggest Denison for someone who wants to leave college and have a high paying job right away but I have learned a new thought process in my first year.

Great academic atmosphere. Small class sizes. Top-notch professors. Tons of resources.

i've had a lot of intellectual conversations outside of class with friends and students are really competitive, a little too competitive. classes can be very challenging and require a lot of work. everybody freaks out during finals week with all the work they have. the professors are pretty flexible, fair but not easy. the international studies department is just a mixture of a lot of other departments and sort of unorganized

Proffessors know your name--it's like in highschool, only class sizes are even smaller. My first semester classes ranged 10-20 ppl. Favourite class-German, cuz I like to learn languages. I also liked FYS English, cuz I learned how to write papers really well. Physics 125 was pretty damn interesting, eye opening. Economics seems handy and interesting, I M MAJORING IN IT. Class participation is very, very, very, very common. Youre graded on it. Yeah, people, do have academic/intellectual conversation outside school! You'd be surprised, people do get into it a lot. Competitive--in Swimming, YES. We're gonna beat Kenyon, at least at Conference. Most unique class---So far, probably, Cinema, fun, interesting, lots-of-work class. You have to use actual 16mm cameras and real film stock--nice, but a load of work. would have never had anything like that in High school. Don't really hang out with the professors too much. Denison's academic requirements are really subtle--in my opinion. I didn't worry about fulfilling them my freshman year, but when I checked, I alreaady had most of them. Education, so far to me, seems geared for learning for learning's sake. The internships and the good-sounding majors get you that job you wanted. But otherwise it seems to me lots of people go on to grad-school.

I have a very close relationship with my professors and I have loved my classes-both those for my major, and those required for general education, my classes have been challenging and I have grown intellectually over my four years here, class participation is common, but I would say only a handful of students have intellectual conversations outside of class, Denison however is aimed at students getting a job through their parents connections...

Professors overall are good. Classes are very rarely enormous; 25 so far has been my largest class size. Evaluations of professors and classes are strongly encouraged by all administration and professors, and it is a great way to have your voice heard. Professors do actually listen to the evaluations and attempt to change accordingly. Most classes are geared towards learning for its own sake. We don't even have a business major here; you have to arrange your majors to accommodate accordingly. Students don't tend to be very competitive. Denison also provides fairly interesting classes for the freshmen, and has a theme each year to focus the class towards one particular topic (Hum|an|imal, for my year). Hearing intellectual conversation outside of class is a little surprising to hear, though it isn't a rare occurance.

The professors are great. They know the students names. They have flexible office hours. They are quick about responding to emails and they genuinely care about their students. You have to work really hard at Denison to get good grades. Professors expect a lot of their students so you have to put a lot of time and effort into your work. It was also really helpful coming into Denison with a lot of AP credits because they took care of some general education requirements.

I really like the academic atmosphere at Denison especially in the Biology Department. I would say over 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my professors knew me by name and I found it really easy to talk to them outside of class and that sort of thing. It is clear that the majority of professors at Denison care deeply about their students and want them to succeed. I think that Denison's academic requirements were also quite good. I did not have trouble fitting in all of my classes and I felt that I had a good amount of flexibility with my choice of classes. I was not shut out of any class that I was absolutely dying to take. When I was placed onto a waitlist for a Biology Class that I really wanted to take I just went to the professor and talk to him about why I wanted to take his class and he signed me into it with no problem.

Small classes. The biggest class for me was 35 students. Professors know you by name and you know them by name. In the cinema department, I know my professors by a first name basis (I imagine it is like that in other departments too).