The Social Construction of School Violence. Mentors provide general advice and specific information about courses, research opportunities, extracurricular and social options. Each first-year student has a volunteer upperclass mentor who is assigned during the summer prior to enrollment at the college. The college will also consider any off-campus program on an individual basis if it meets the established criteria. Many of these programs offer a rich variety of courses, while some specialize in the sciences or the humanities.
Language study is part of the curriculum in all non-English speaking countries.
In 1995-96, a Denison Honors student matriculated at Corpus Christi Collge, Oxford. In the last ten years, Denison students have received 17 Fulbright Scholarships, five Fulbright alternate designations, threeNational Science Foundation Fellowships, and five recognitions by the USA Today Academic All American Selection Committee including a member of the Class of 2001 being named as one of 20 on the All USA Academic First Team. Recently, four Denison seniors were Rhodes Scholar state finalists, with one also being a Marshall scholarship regional finalist. In four of the last seven years, Denison juniors have been selected as Truman Scholarship finalists, with one student being named a Truman Scholar for 1998. In each of the past three years, a Denison student has received a Goldwater Fellowship in Science and Mathematics, and in 1999 and 2001, seniors were awarded Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities.