Forms / Advising

Undergraduate Forms

Departmental Forms

• PLSC Wokrsheet: Complete this worksheet prior to your advising appointment to map out your Political Science major requirements, review your progress toward degree completion, and plan future coursework.

• URO Degree Audit Exception Form: Use this form for the following purposes    

                   - to petition for non-Yale courses (study abroad or transfer credits) to be counted toward the major (the course must be on your Yale College transcript before submitting this petition)

                   - to petition for non-political science courses to count toward the major

                   - to petition to change the field distribution of a political science course

                   - to add PLSC cross-listed courses that are not automatically populating in Degree Audit

• Yale College Petitions & Forms: Use the following forms after registration or add/drop has ended

                   - Add Courses

                 - Course Drop/Course Adjustment

• Degree Audit System
• Interdisciplinary Concentration (IDC) Major Application - to be submitted before November recess in the final year of enrollment - includes the IDC Course Plan Proposal (see an example here)
• IDC Form for Concentration Courses - if, after the DUS approves your IDC Major Application, you would like to apply a different course toward your concentration, please submit this form.
• Individual Reading for Majors (PLSC 4700 - Fall Semester)
• Individual Reading for Majors (PLSC 4701 - Spring Semester)
• Political Science Senior Essay Application
• Senior Essay Prospectus Form

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