College Seminars

Application to Seminars

College seminars meet during the first week of classes, beginning Wednesday, September 2.

Applications for fall-term seminars are now closed. Admissions information will be available for Wednesday and Thursday seminars by Tuesday, September 1, at 5 P.M. Admissions information for the remaining seminars will be available by Thursday, September 3, at 5 P.M. If a student has been admitted to a seminar, the course will be listed under "Assignment Result" in OCS Preference Selection and will also be pushed to the OCS schedule worksheet. For students who have not been admitted, Preference Selection will state "We were unable to assign you to a section." Interested students who missed the application deadline should e-mail the instructor to determine if space is still available in the class.

College Seminars

In any given term, students may apply to no more than three college seminars and may enroll in no more than two. During their time at Yale, students may enroll in no more than four college seminars total. Auditing is not permitted, and graduate students are not eligible to apply.

Seminars are limited to eighteen students (fifteen for writing courses). College sponsorship of a seminar is indicated by the inclusion of the college's initials in the course number. The initials of the cosponsoring college appear in parentheses following the course number. In cosponsored seminars, six spaces each are reserved for members of the two sponsoring colleges. In a seminar sponsored by only one college, half the spaces are reserved for members of that college. The remaining spaces are open to all undergraduates regardless of college affiliation.

Application to Writing Seminars

The seminars listed below require a writing sample e-mailed to the instructor at the time of application. Please note that not all writing seminars carry WR distributional credit; the Course Descriptions page contains information about distributional credit for each seminar.

CSBK 210a (BR) "Contemporary Food Writing" Mei Chin

CSCC 212a (MC) "The Musical Language of Poetry" Dave Johnson

CSMC 210a (TD) "Magazine Journalism" Jake Halpern