The following introductory-level courses without prerequisites enable students to fulfill the area requirement in science (Sc) through study in a wide range of disciplines. In addition, there are a multitude of Sc courses with prerequisites (such as single-variable calculus or introductory work in a natural or social science) that can be fulfilled through introductory-level course work or advanced placement. Students may view the complete list of Sc courses or search for Sc courses in specific departments using the YCS (Yale Course Search) Web site.
First-year Seminars
- APHY 050a - Science of Modern Technology
- ASTR 040a/PHYS 040a - Expanding Ideas of Time and Space
- CMSC 035b/MUSI 035b - Twenty- First Century Electronic and Computer Music
- EVST 040a - Collections of the Peabody Museum
- MCDB 040b - Science and Politics of Cancer
- MCDB 050a - Immunology and Microbs
- PHYS 050a - Science of Modern Technology and Public Policy
- SCIE 030a/031b - Current Topics in Science
Other Courses Without Prerequisites
- ANTH 116a - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- ANTH 300a - Primate Behavior and Ecology
- ANTH 464b - Human Osteology
- APHY 100b - Energy, Technology and Society
- ASTR 110a - Planets and Stars
- ASTR 120b - Galaxies and the Universe
- ASTR 130b - Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe
- ASTR 155a - Introduction to Astronmical Observing
- ASTR 180a - Introduction to Relativity and Black Holes
- ASTR 210a - Stars and Their Evolution
- ASTR 255a - Research Methods in Astrophysics
- BENG 485b - Fundamentals of Neuroimaging
- BIOL 101a or b - Biochemistry and Biophysics
- CENG 120b - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- CHEM 104b - Chemistry of Food and Cooking
- CGSC 352a - Arrested or Adaptive Development of the Adolescent Brain
- E&EB 035a - The Ecology of Food
- E&EB 106a/HLTH 115a - Biology of Malaria, Lyme, and other Vector-Borne Diseases
- E&EB 115a - Conservation Biology
- E&EB 125b - History of Life
- E&EB 145b - Plants and People
- E&EB 175Lb - Virus Discovery and Evolution
- E&EB 225b - Evolutionary Biology
- E&EB 255a - Invertebrates
- E&EB 290b - Comparative Developmental Anatomy of Vertebrates
- ENAS 100b - Energy Technology and Society
- ENAS 221a - The Materials Science of Art
- ENVE 120b - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- EVST 231a - Temperate Woody Plant Taxonomy and Dendrology
- EVST 344a - Aquatic Chemistry
- G&G 110a - Dynamic Earth
- G&G 125b - History of Life
- G&G 140a - Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Change
- G&G 216b - Global Warming: Climate Physics
- MB&B 105a/MCDB 105b - Biology, the World, and Us
- MCDB 109b -Immunity and Contagion
- NSCI 160a/PSCY 160A - The Human Brain
- NSCI 161b/PSYC 161b - Drug, Brain, and Behavior
- PHYS 120b - Quantum Physics and Beyond
- PSYC 160a - The Human Brain
- PSYC 161b - Drugs, Brain, and Behavior