<p>Most English classes at Cornell are pretty small, with the exception of the predictable lecture courses in History of Literature and Shakespeare (even those come with discussion sections). I took numerous seminars and certainly got to know plenty of professors when I attended as an undergraduate–a fair number of them, in fact, came to my Ithaca wedding to another Cornell undergraduate. The school is huge and very diverse, but the # of people in each department–especially the # of serious, academically-oriented undergraduates in each humanities department–is not.</p>
<p>Classics, philosophy, and most of the modern languages are smaller majors than English, and even more intimate.</p>