Yale College & Department Attributes

Attributes are searchable labels that have been added to a course.

  • Course attributes are used by Yale College to indicate courses that earn specific distributional requirements.
  • Course attributes are used by departments to indicate courses that count toward major requirements.
  • Course attributes are used by Degree Audit to track fulfillment of major, concentration, and certificate requirements.
  • Course attributes are used by Certificates to label courses that count toward specific certificate requirements.
  • Course attributes are used by students to find courses that fulfill major, concentration, and certificate requirements. This is done in Yale Course Search by using the Search dropdown option called Any Course Information Attribute. Students may also search for distributional designations assigned to a course by using the Yale College Attributes dropdown option.

Yale College Distribution Designation Attributes

Departmental Attributes

American Studies (AMST)

Anthropology (ANTH)

Archaeological Studies (ARCG)

Architecture (ARCH)

Biomedical Engineering (BENG)

Chemistry (CHEM)

Classics (CLSS)

Climate Science and Solutions Certificate

Cognitive Science (CGSC)

Collections: Objects, Research, Society Certificate

Comparative Literature (CPLT)

Computer Science (CPSC)

Computer Science and Economics (CSEC)

Computer Science and Math 

Computing and the Arts (CPAR)

Computing and Linguistics (CPLI)

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)

Economics (ECON)

Education Studies Certificate (EDST)

Energy Studies Certificate (ENRG) 

English (ENGL)

Environmental Studies (EVST)

Ethics, Politics, and Economics (EP&E)

Ethnicity, Race & Migration (ER&M)

Ethnography Certificate

Film and Media Studies (FILM)

Food, Agriculture, and Climate Change Certificate

French (FREN)

German (GMAN)

Global Affairs (GLBL)

 Global Health Studies Certificate

History (HIST)

History of Art (HSAR)

History of Science, Medicine and Public Health (HSHM)

Human Rights Studies Certificate

Humanities (HUMS)

Islamic Studies Certificate

Italian (ITAL)

Linguistics (LING)

Mathematics (MATH)

Mechanical Engineering (MENG)

Medieval Studies Certificate (MDVL)

Modern Middle East Studies (MMES)

Music (MUSI)

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)

Neuroscience (NSCI)

Persian & Iranian Studies Certificate

Philosophy (PHIL)

Political Science (PLSC)

Programming Certificate

Psychology (PSYC)

Quantum Physics Certificate

Sociology (SOCY)

South Asian Studies (SAST)

Spanish (SPAN)

Statistics & Data Science (S&DS)

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS)

Urban Studies (URBN)