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Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Official telephone: (860) 297-2000
Fax number: (860) 297-2257
Website: www.trincoll.edu
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| Screen last updated on: January 22, 2010 |
| Year established: |
1823 |
| Type of school: |
college, private (nonprofit) |
| Programs: |
4-year undergraduate, graduate school |
| Religious affiliation: |
no |
| Campus enrollment: |
2,566 students |
| Coeducational information: |
coeducational institution, became coeducational in 1969 |
| Location description: |
in or near a major city (pop. 300,000 or more) |
| Application fee: |
$60 |
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| Street address: |
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106 |
| Mailing address: |
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106 |
| Main telephone numbers: |
860 297-2000
860 297-2257 (fax) |
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| Main homepage: |
www.trincoll.edu |
| Campus map: |
www.trincoll.edu/NR/
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| SAT number: |
3899 |
| ACT number: |
0598 |
| FAFSA number: |
001414 |
| FICE number: |
1414 |
| CSS/PROFILE number: |
3899 |
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| CAMPUS SUMMARY |
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Trinity is one of the nation's oldest and finest colleges. Located in Connecticut's capital city on a beautiful 100-acre campus, Trinity offers a liberal arts education of the highest quality. Global in scope, Trinity's curriculum presents a broad array of interdisciplinary studies and exceptional offerings in science and engineering. The College's city location provides students extensive opportunities for internships, community service, and cultural exploration. A diverse, talented community united by a passion for learning, Trinity challenges students to make a difference on our campus, in the city, and around the world. |
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| UNIQUE/SPECIAL PROGRAMS |
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Widely acknowledged as one of the top liberal arts colleges in America, Trinity offers the best of both worlds: a rigorous liberal arts education and an education in the world beyond campus. Building on its traditional strengths in the arts and humanities and its exceptional offerings in the sciences and engineering, Trinity engages students in a conversation with the world through its study abroad programs; interdisciplinary programs whose multiple perspectives prepare students for a future of unprecedented change; state-of-the-art electronic facilities to support Trinity’s pioneering use of information technology in the classroom; and innovative, rigorous new programs that draw on the rich cultural, educational, and professional assets of Hartford, the capital city of Connecticut. The heart of a Trinity education, however, remains the personal encounter of professor and student, the intellectual partnership that discovers a world of ideas and ignites a passion for learning.
Trinity has recently added several distinctive new programs. At the beginning of fall 1998, Trinity began offering a major in Jewish Studies, a multidisciplinary, college-wide exploration of Jewish civilization in its many historical and geographical manifestations. The scope of the Jewish Studies curriculum covers Jewish civilization from its ancient Near Eastern origins through its contemporary history and culture in Israel and the diaspora communities around the world. It is a secular, academic program with diverse, cross-cultural emphases.
Also in the fall of 1998, Trinity launched the first undergraduate program in the nation to focus on human rights. Designed to allow students to minor in human rights or to pursue a self-designed major, the International Human Rights Program is interdisciplinary, offering courses in a wide range of fields including anthropology, English, history, international studies, philosophy, political science, public policy, religion, sociology, and theater and dance. The IHRP also features unique co-curricular components, including a yearly lecture series, a summer fellowship program, and an advocate-in-residence program. Students have exceptional opportunities not only to study human rights issues but also to meet human rights activists and become involved in actual, hands-on human-rights activism, and, as part of the program, have served with Amnesty International in Ghana, Africa and in Washington, DC. The IHRP is a manifestation of Trinity's academic vision and commitment, as expressed in the College's new Strategic Plan, to expand curricular emphasis on international issues and the powerful forces of global change.
In the spring of 1998, the College launched an ambitious and wide-ranging program offering Trinity students exceptional opportunities to internationalize their educational experience. Three new “global learning sites”—in Cape Town, South Africa, St. Augustine, Trinidad, and Kathmandu, Nepal—have already opened and provide a Trinity-directed education in key international cities. Students are linked via the Internet to Trinity faculty in Hartford and engage in cyber-seminars.
In the fall of 1999, Trinity launched the InterArts program, an innovative, multidisciplinary program enabling a limited group of first- and second-year students to study, practice, and discuss art in an arts-rich environment. Involving professors of creative writing, music, studio arts, and theater and dance as well as faculty from other disciplines and departments and guest artists, the InterArts program utilizes Trinity’s many campus resources—a unique, extensive academic musical theater program, state-of-the-art photography labs, a student-managed art gallery for student and faculty work, culture- and genre-spanning musical performances, experimental and classical theater, a cutting-edge electronic media studio, and much more—and capitalize on Trinity’s location in Hartford and the College’s many working partnerships with the City’s cultural institutions—the Wadsworth Atheneum (America’s oldest public art museum), the Connecticut Opera, the Hartford Symphony, the Hartford Ballet, Hartford Stage, Real Art Ways, and the City’s many smaller venues for art, music, dance, film, and theater. This wealth of artistic resources provides students ample opportunities to observe, perform, and study many arts and to meet and learn from practicing artists in a wide array of art forms.
In the fall of 2000, the College opened the Tutorial College, which provides selected sophomores with a highly uncommon opportunity to participate in an innovative academic community comprising 60 students and five professors from departments in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. This new “college within the College” offers a unified living and learning environment where students and faculty pursue their interests through readings, experiments, and discussions. All students in the Tutorial College live together in a newly constructed residence hall, which also houses the Tutorial College meeting rooms where faculty and students carry on their studies in discussions, assemblies, seminars, one-on-one tutorials, and conversations. In short, the Tutorial College offers a congenial academic “home” for sophomores eager to engage in a sustained dialogue with professors and other students, and eager to pursue their intellectual curiosity wherever it leads.
Other Trinity academic programs of note:
BEACON (Biomedical Engineering Alliance for Connecticut). Established in January 1998 with a $1-million grant from the Whitaker Foundation, and spearheaded by Trinity, BEACON enables Trinity students to enroll in the full range of biomedical engineering courses offered at BEACON institutions (the University of Connecticut, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the University of Hartford) and conduct research in biomedical engineering at three area health centers. Designed to enhance educational opportunities for biomedical engineering students in the greater Hartford area and promote research efforts of the biomedical engineering faculty, BEACON affirms and expands Trinity’s commitment to the sciences and engineering.
Trinity-in-San Franciso: In January 1999, Trinity opened its Trinity-in-San Francisco campus, which offers an interdisciplinary program focusing on the wealth of resources in the San Francisco Bay area for undergraduate liberal arts study. Located in the historic Bransten House, the program presents seminars and intensive fieldwork and research as well as weekly lectures by prominent Bay-area figures, community leaders, academics, artists and writers. The Trinity-in-San Francisco program is a leading example of the College’s plans to develop the urban and global emphases in its curriculum. |
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