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)