What Is The Trinity Williams Mystic Program?

Williams-Mystic is a semester-long program that combines academic courses, fieldwork, and maritime history at Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum. The program offers students the opportunity to explore the ocean’s biodiversity, impacts, and literature through courses, research, and field trips. The 17-week intensive program includes four core courses: maritime, which differs from other minors due to its dependencies on courses offered in one of two off-campus programs, the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program.

Students in the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program study mankind’s relationship with the sea in the field, including on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and from aboard a fully rigged sailing ship. The program also includes credit transfer, field seminars, graduate courses in maritime history, and maritime skills programs at Mystic, CT.

Admission into the Marine Studies minor is contingent upon admission to the Williams-Mystic, SEA Semester, or Duke University Marine Lab Semester Programs. International students are only eligible to use their Smith aid for the National Theatre Institute and Williams Mystic Programs.

The program is part of the Twelve-College Exchange Program, which includes the Williams-Mystic Seaport Program in American Maritime Studies in Mystic. Don has spent many years as a skills instructor in the Williams-Mystic Program and delivered hundreds of programs to school children and youth.