List of Abbreviations

The following guide contains the abbreviations used in course listings in Yale College. It also includes some other abbreviations used in this handbook.

ACCT	Accounting

AFAM	African American Studies

AFST	African Studies

AKKD	Akkadian

AMST	American Studies

AMTH	Applied Mathematics

ANTH	Anthropology

AP	Advanced Placement

APHY	Applied Physics

ARBC	Arabic

ARCG	Archaeological Studies

ARCH	Architecture

ART	Art

ASTR	Astronomy

BENG	Biomedical Engineering

CENG	Chemical Engineering

CGSC	Cognitive Science

CHEM	Chemistry

CHLD	Child Study Center

CHNS	Chinese

CLCV	Classical Civilization

CLSS	Classics

CPAR	Computing and the Arts

CPSC	Computer Science

CZEC	Czech

DEVN	DeVane Lecture Course

DRST	Directed Studies (courses)

DS	Directed Studies (program)

DUS	Director of undergraduate studies

EALL	East Asian Languages and Literatures

EAST	East Asian Studies

ECON	Economics

E&AS	Engineering and Applied Science (program)

E&EB	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (courses)

EEB	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (program)

EENG	Electrical Engineering

EGYP	Egyptian

ENAS	Engineering and Applied Science (courses)

ENGL	English Language and Literature

ENVE	Environmental Engineering

EP&E	Ethics, Politics, and Economics

ER&M	Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

EVST	Environmental Studies

F&ES	Forestry & Environmental Studies

FILM	Film Studies

FREN	French

G&G	Geology and Geophysics

GMAN	Germanic Languages and Literatures

GMST	German Studies

GREK	Greek (ancient)

HEBR	Hebrew

HIST	History

HLTH	Health Studies

HNDI	Hindi

HSAR	History of Art

HSHM	History of Science, History of Medicine

HUMS	Humanities

INDN	Indonesian

INTS	International Studies

ITAL	Italian

JAPN	Japanese

JDST	Judaic Studies

KREN	Korean

LAST	Latin American Studies

LATN	Latin

LING	Linguistics

LITR	Literature

MATH	Mathematics

MB&B	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

MCDB	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

MENG	Mechanical Engineering

MGRK	Greek (modern)

MMES	Modern Middle East Studies

MUSI	Music

NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

OPRS	Operations Research

PERS	Persian

PHIL	Philosophy

PHYS	Physics

PLSC	Political Science

PLSH	Polish

PORT	Portuguese

PSE	Perspectives on Science and Engineering

PSYC	Psychology

QUAN	Quantitative Reasoning

RLST	Religious Studies

RSEE	Russian and East European Studies

RUSS	Russian

SAST	South Asian Studies

SCIE	Science

SEAS	Southeast Asia Studies

SLAV	Slavic Languages and Literatures

SOCY	Sociology

SPAN	Spanish

SPEC	Special Divisional Major

STAT	Statistics

STCY	Study of the City

SWAH	Kiswahili

TAML	Tamil

THST	Theater Studies

TKSH	Turkish

TPRP	Teacher Preparation and Education Studies

VIET	Vietnamese

WGSS	Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

YCPS	Yale College Programs of Study

YORU	Yorùbá

YPKU	Yale–Peking University

ZULU	isiZulu