Williams-Mystic Program

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The Cramer, the 133-foot tall ship upon which Williams-Mystic students spend 10 awesome days

To most of its alums, the most awesome study-away semester program ever. Involves going down to Mystic, Connecticut, living in houses of 4-7 people from various liberal arts colleges, cooking (and sometimes maybe even cleaning) for yourself, across from a museum with three tall ships and several hundred smaller ones. Also involves a 10-day trip on a 133-foot tall ship, a week-long trip to the West Coast, and a 4-day trip to Louisiana or the Chesapeake Bay. Also copious time spent doing individual research in a marsh, river, beach, rocky intertidal zone, or whatever coastal environment you prefer. The other three major research papers will have you calling fishery commissions (policy), reading Melville's non-Moby-sized maritime stories (literature), and turning the pages of a 200-year-old ship's log with gloved hands in the museum collections (history). Super-interdisciplinary, all with amazingly always-there-for-you professors.

Professors

The entire program has 20 (+/- 2) students with five professors:

Curriculum

In addition to course offerings available only in the Mystic program, you also get to take skills, including:

Alumni

Williams College alumni of the Williams-Mystic program include Andrea Burke '06, Evan Chadwick '06, Tyler Corson-Rikert '06, Candice Corvetti '07, Eliot Crafton '06, Diana Davis '07, Elizabeth Doran '06, Emily Fertig '06, Jamie Hensel '05, Ariel Heyman '08, Elise Leduc '06, Sara Martin '07, Abby McBride '06, Jane McCamant '05, Christine M. Marshall '08, Katie Montgomery '07, Jim Prevas '06, Macy Radloff '06, Alden Robinson '06, Kate Scheider '07, Eleanor Schmidt '06, and Erin Weekley '06. Several of these have become real, live sailors.

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