Eligible Courses

These Spring 2025 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).

Anthropology

ANTH 326  Ancient Civilizations of the Eurasian Steppes (Zone 2 or 4)

Arabic

ARBC 146  Beginning Classical Arabic II (Zone 3)

ARBC 166  Intermediate Classical Arabic II (Zone 3)

East Asian Languages and Literatures

EALL 226  The Fantastic in Premodern China (Zone 1)

EALL 236  Japanese Poetry and Poetics (Zone 1)

English

ENGL 3502  The Earliest English Literature (Zone 4)

ENGL 4516  Religion, Race and Empire in Medieval Literatures (Zone 4)

French

FREN 405   Notre-Dame de Paris (Zone 4)

History

HIST 211  The Birth of Europe, 1000-1500 (Zone 4)

HIST 222J   Russia and the Eurasian Steppe (Zone 2 or 4)

HIST 234J  History of the Supernatural from Antiquity to Modernity (Zone 4)

History of Art

HSAR 457  Japanese Gardens (Zone 1)

HSAR 467  Rethinking Andean Landscapes

Italian Studies

ITAL 317   Women in the Middle Ages (Zone 4)

ITAL 385   Textual and Visual Cultures in Premodern Italy (Zone 4)

Music

MUSI 240  The Performance of Early Music (Zone 4)

MUSI 455  Histories of Music Notation (Zone 4)

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

NELC 326  The Quran and its Interpreters (Zone 3)

Religious Studies

RLST 240  From Yajnavalkya to Schopenhauer: The Philosophy of the Upanishads (Zone 2)

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

WGSS 291  Sexual Minorities from Plato to the Enlightenment (Zone 4)