First Year Registration

COURSE PLACEMENT

All new students are invited to a Zoom information session on Monday, August 11, 1:30-2:30 PM, where course directors will join the English Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) and Associate DUS to answer questions about all English introductory courses.

REGISTRATION

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

To register for a First Year Seminars, students must submit an Instructor Permission request through YCS. During registration period, students may register for introductory English courses without submitting an Instructor Permission request as long as seats are available.

FIRST YEAR SEMINARS

Fall 2025

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

ENGL 0710 Jane Austen. Nancy Yousef.

ENGL 0711 Lincoln in Thought and Action. David Bromwich.

ENGL 0820 Six Global Perspectives on Biographers. Ernest Mitchell.

ENGL 0839 Latinx Literature Aside the Law. Joseph Miranda.

ENGL 0890 Literatures of Canada: Colony, Nation, Postcolony. Katie Trumpener.

Spring 2026

ENGL 0015 James Agee: The American Documentary Tradition and the Great Depression. Lincoln Caplan.

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

ENGL 0729 Henry Thoreau. Michael Warner.

ENGL 0763 Vampires, Castles, and Werewolves. Heather Klemann.

ENGL 0828 African Literature in the World. Cajetan Iheka.

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

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 in order 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, Stefanie Markovits (DUS), or Marcel Elias (Associate DUS) via email or Zoom appointment.