These Spring 2026 undergraduate courses are eligible to be counted toward the Undergraduate Certificate. Cross-listed courses are listed only once. Some encompass more than one Zone, though for the purposes of the distribution requirement, you can count them only once. Graduate-level courses with a MDVL number may also be counted toward the Certificate. Depending on reading and coursework, other Yale College courses may also be eligible for the certificate; if you have questions about whether and how a course might count, please speak to a Certificate Adviser. For previous Certificate-eligible courses, see the course archive. Please note that, in general, courses that can be repeated for credit may be counted only once toward the Certificate, with a few exceptions (such as topics courses whose subjects regularly change).
Arabic
ARBC 1460 Beginning Classical Arabic II (Zone 3)
ARBC 1650 Early Adab (Zone 3)
ARBC 1660 Intermediate Classical Arabic II (Zone 3)
ARBC 4500 History of the Arabic Language (Zone 3)
Comparative Literature
CPLT 1800 Women in the Middle Ages (Zone 4)
CPLT 1960 Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Zone 4)
CPLT 3011 Persian Literary Classics (Zone 3)
East Asian Languages and Literature
EALL 2190 Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (Zone 1)
Egyptian
EGYP 1270 Elementary Biblical Coptic II (Zone 3)
English Language and Literature
ENGL 3504 Knights, Travelers and Mystics (Zone 4)
ENGL 3510 Visions of Other Worlds in Medieval British Literature (Zone 4)
History
HIST 1280 The Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Zone 4)
HIST 1645 Jews in Muslim Lands from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries (Zone 3)
HIST 2211 The Birth of Europe (Zone 4)
HIST 3222 Russia and the Eurasian Steppe (Zone 2 or 4)
HIST 3226 How the West became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500 (Zone 4)
History of Art
HSAR 4457 Japanese Gardens (Zone 1)
Humanities
HUMS 2100 Women in the Middle Ages (Zone 4)
Music
MUSI 2232 Central Javanese Gamelan Ensemble (Zone 1)
MUSI 2233 Cultures and Performing Arts of Central Java (Zone 1)
MUSI 2240 Performance of Early Music (Zone 4)
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
WGSS 2297 Gender Expression before Modernity (Zone 4)