The Department of Psychology at Yale conducts research in major areas of the field, including behavioral neuroscience, clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social/personality psychology. The B.A. in psychology has been designed to provide undergraduates reasonable grounding in psychology in the context of a general liberal arts education. At the graduate level, the primary goal is the training of research investigators in academic and applied settings. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/psychology

Introduction to Psychology
The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food

Yale has been home to some of the world’s foremost political scientists and the current faculty includes diverse practitioners of all the major methodologies of political science. The undergraduate program offers a range of courses including American government, comparative government, international relations, analytical political theory, and political philosophy. The graduate program trains professional political scientists for careers in research and teaching, government, international organizations, business, and other callings outside the academic world. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/polisci

Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform
Introduction to Political Philosophy

The Department of Physics at Yale offers a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in the various disciplines of the field, including five different introductory sequences for undergraduates, who may pursue either the B.A. or B.S. The graduate program provides research opportunities in numerous fields including atomic physics and quantum optics; nuclear physics; particle physics; astrophysics and cosmology; condensed matter; quantum information physics and applied physics. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/physics

Fundamentals of Physics I
Fundamentals of Physics II

The Department of Philosophy at Yale offers a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in various traditions of philosophy, with strengths and a well-established reputation in the history of philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of art as well as other central topics. The Department has affiliated faculty members in the Law School, the Linguistics Department, the Political Science Department, and the Divinity School, and has close connections with the Cognitive Science Program and with the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/philos

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature
Death

The Department of the History of Art at Yale offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in art, architecture, and visual culture in their social and historical contexts. These courses are not characterized by a single methodological approach, but by a commitment to the firsthand investigation of works of art and to theoretically sophisticated multidisciplinary analysis. The undergraduate curriculum includes courses on Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern European and American art, in addition to courses on pre-Columbian, African, and Asian art. Students are encouraged to make use of original materials at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. Learn more at http://arthistory.yale.edu

Roman Architecture

The Department of History is home to one of the most popular majors on the Yale campus and encompasses the histories of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Courses range in focus from the earliest recorded historical periods up through the modern day. Students are required to study history from a variety of geographical, chronological, and methodological perspectives, utilizing source materials wherever possible. The department also houses the History of Medicine and Science major. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/history

The American Revolution
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000
European Civilization, 1648-1945
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts
France Since 1871

The Geology and Geophysics program prepares students for the application of scientific principles and methods to the understanding of Earth, the environment, and life on a regional and a planetary scale. Subjects range from the history of Earth and life to present-day environmental processes, integrating the study of Earth’s deep interior, tectonic plates, oceans, atmosphere, climate, land surface, natural resources, and biota. The emphasis of the curriculum is on employing basic principles from the core sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) to further an understanding of Earth’s past and present, and addressing issues relating to its future. Students gain a broad background in the natural sciences, and also select a specific track to focus their work on planetary or environmental phenomena of particular interest. Learn more at http://earth.yale.edu/.

The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change

The Environmental Studies Program in Yale College provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and responding to environmental problems. From the natural sciences, students learn experimental techniques and methods of analysis needed to make accurate observations, to document change, to distinguish those changes resulting from human activity, and to understand what comprises healthy landscapes and functioning ecosystems. Students look to the humanities and social sciences for explanations of the ways people behave and for analyses of our institutions and their social, political, and economic activities. Learn more at http://evst.research.yale.edu/

Environmental Politics and Law

The Department of English at Yale teaches the majority of freshmen in Yale College and graduates more than 100 English majors in every Yale class. Undergraduate courses are designed to develop students’ understanding of important works of English, American, and other literatures in English and to provide historical perspectives from which to read and analyze these works. At the graduate level, the department offers a broad range of courses that engage all the traditional chronological periods of British literature, American literature since its inception, and many of the contemporary interdisciplines. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/english

Introduction to Theory of Literature
Milton
Modern Poetry
The American Novel Since 1945

The Department of Economics at Yale offers a wide spectrum of courses for both specialists and non-specialists alike. For undergraduate majors, a core of courses in macro- and microeconomics, mathematics, and econometrics is required. Advanced courses offer training in economic history, finance, theory, international and developmental economics, market organization, human resources, and the public sector. The graduate program covers a broad range of research interests and diverse methodologies. Learn more at http://www.econ.yale.edu/

Financial Markets (2008)
Financial Markets (2011)
Financial Theory
Game Theory
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