WR Courses
If you're a freshman, we urge you to read the section Choosing a WR Course. What follows here is elaborates that advice.
Three Ways to Think About a Freshman WR Course
(1) English 114
English 114 is the course at Yale that provides the best overall instruction to writing college papers.
(2) Other seminars for freshmen
Although writing college papers is not the main subject of the courses listed below, all of them make it a priority to teach freshmen how to improve their writing.
| Introductory English | Directed Studies | Freshman Seminars |
| English 115 | DRST 001 Literature | American Studies 010 |
| English 116 | DRST 002 Philosophy | History 010 |
| English 117 | History 022 | |
| English 125 | History of Science/Med 005 | |
English 127 |
Religious Studies 009 | |
| English 129 | Spanish 070 |
(3) All WR Courses
You will learn the most about writing in a course you're excited to take. If the seminars for freshmen listed above are not quite right for you, shop the WR listings for a course that grabs your interest. You can get the most updated WR information from the Online Course Information website. Note: since these courses may have less time to spend on writing skills, we recommend getting extra feedback on your papers, perhaps from a Writing Center Tutor.
