Yale College
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246 Church Street
New Haven, CT
06510   USA

Distributional Requirements

The distributional requirements, described in this section, are intended to assure that by graduation all students have gained a broad acquaintance with a variety of fields of inquiry and approaches to knowledge. The distributional requirements are the only specific rules limiting the selection of courses outside a student's major program. The distributional requirements constitute a minimal education, not a complete one. They are a schematic representation of the least that an educated person should seek to know. They are to be embraced as starting points, not goals.

Distributional Requirements for the Class of 2009 and Subsequent Classes

Distributional Requirements for the Class of 2008