Choosing a WR Course

Keep these three suggestions in mind:

(1) Take something soon. You must take at least one WR course by the end of sophomore year, but we urge you to take one your very first semester. The best way to become a strong college writer is to take one or more WR courses every year that you’re at Yale.

(2) Take what you’re interested in. More than 150 courses, spanning 45 different academic departments, fulfill the WR requirement. Participating departments are listed below. WR courses do not always assign more writing—instead, the professors have agreed to give more feedback and guidance about writing.

(3) Introductory English courses are especially strong introductions to writing at Yale. All of the courses listed below will give you a strong foundation in writing, but keep in mind that they each focus on a different type of writing.

English 114 & 116: Academic Writing—writing college papers
English 115 & 117: Writing about Literature
English 120: Creative Non-fiction
English 125, 127, 129: Literature classes with writing emphasis

Departments that offer WR Courses

African American Studies	Ethics, Politics, &	Modern Greek
African Studies	Economics	Modern Middle East Studies
American Studies	Ethnicity, Race, &	Music
Anthropology	Migration	Near Eastern Languages &
Archaeological Studies	Film Studies	Civilizations
Architecture	German	Philosophy
Biomedical Engineering	German Studies	Political Science
Chemistry	History	Portuguese
Child Study	History of Art	Psychology
Classical Civilization	History of Science, History	Religious Studies
College Seminar Program	of Medicine	Sociology
Computer Science	Humanities	South Asian Studies
Directed Studies	International Studies	Spanish
East Asian Studies	Italian	Theater Studies
Ecology & Evolutionary	Japanese	Teacher Preparation
Biology	Judaic Studies	Women's, Gender, &
Economics	Literature	Sexuality Studies
English	Molecular, Cellular, &
Environmental Studies	Developmental Biology