First Year Registration

COURSE PLACEMENT

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REGISTRATION

Yale College students may register for the following first year seminars or introductory English courses in Yale Course Search (YCS), during their designated registration period and during the add/drop period.

How Yale College Students Register for Classes

To register for first year seminars, log into YCS to select the course and submit an instructor permission request. During registration period, students may register for introductory English courses without submitting an instructor permission request as long as seats are available; instructor permission will be required during add/drop period.

FIRST YEAR SEMINARS

Fall 2026

ENGL 0117 Writing About Nature. Jill Campbell.

ENGL 0133 Words, Words, Words: The Structure and History of English Words. Peter Grund.

ENGL 0767 Reading Victorians. Stuart Semmel.

ENGL 0776 Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Andrew Johnston.

ENGL 0813 Counternarratives: Contemporary Black Historical Fiction. Elleza Kelley.

ENGL 0820 Six Global Perspectives on Biographers. Ernest Mitchell.

ENGL 0831 Love and Death in American Film. Moeko Fujii.

Spring 2027

ENGL 0141 Literature of Suspense. Anastasia Eccles.

ENGL 0440 Writer as Designer, Designer as Writer. Rachel Kauder Nalebuff.

ENGL 0861 Trans Literature. Joan Lubin.

ENGL xxxx Getting into Print. Jacqueline Goldsby. (NEW)

INTRODUCTORY COURSES

ENGL 1014 Writing Seminars

ENGL 1015 Literature Seminars

ENGL 1020 Reading and Writing the Modern Essay

ENGL 1023 Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 1025 Readings in English Poetry I

ENGL 1026 Readings in English Poetry II

ENGL 1027 Readings in American Literature

ENGL 1028 Readings in Comparative World English Literatures

ENGL 1029 Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition

ENGL 1030 Epic in the European Literary Tradition

ADD/DROP

During add/drop period, students must submit an Instructor Permission request through YCS to enroll.

MORE INFORMATION

Please visit the University Registrar’s Office website for detailed registration instructions and other registration resources.

Questions may be directed to Erica Sayers, Jane Bordiere, Feisal Mohamed (DUS), or Nicole Sheriko (Associate DUS) via email.