"Shopping" for the Class-But Not Totally at Your Pleasure
非全自由式選課
Yale has a unique style in her educational system which is known as the "shopping period". It is Yale's course selection period during the first two weeks of classes which allows you to participate in courses that interest you without enrolling in them right away. By way of such "shopping period"，you get to know the essence of a subject whose course title sounds attractive; you get to find where your lifelong research interest lies.
耶魯的教育體系有其別具一格的一面，那就是她的"試聽階段"。所謂的"選課試聽階段"指的是新學期伊始前兩周的試聽課階段，這時你可以選擇去試聽自己感興趣的課程, 而不用馬上做出決定最終是否選修這門課程。通過這個獨特的"試聽階段"，你開始真正了解一門課程名稱很吸引人的課程的實質，你也會逐漸發現自己畢生的研究興趣所在。
After you arrive on campus, you choose courses to visit during the course selection period. What's more, in the first five minutes of the class, whenever you feel the lecture is too boring for you to follow, you can leave the classroom at will. Then from those you visit, you will enroll in four or five a semester. Please be aware that classes conducted during the first two weeks of the term are regular, full-fledged classes with readings and homework. Be prepared to keep up with assignments and participate fully in each class that you may wish to visit.
開學以后的選課階段, 你可以隨意選擇去參加哪些課程。此外, 在課程的前五分鐘， 如果你覺得這門課程太無聊了，那么你可以隨意離開這個教室。接下來，每學期你都要從你試聽的課程中選擇四到五門來正式注冊。試聽課階段的課程也是正式的常規課程的一部分，老師也會布置課下閱讀和作業，所以一旦你想選某一門課，千萬記得按時上課并完成課后作業。
However, in order to ensure that study is neither too narrowly focused nor too diffuse， Yale College requires that study be characterized, particularly in the earlier years, by a reasonable diversity of subject matter and approach，and in the later years by concentration in one of the major programs or departments.
然而，為了確保學生的學習面既不過于狹窄也不過于分散，耶魯學院要求學生在大學學習的前兩年盡量選修豐富的學科門類，學習盡可能多樣的研究方法，隨后的學習時光則要求學生集中在自己的某個專業項目或是方向上。
Students are required to take no fewer than two course credits in the humanities and arts, two course credits in the sciences, and two course credits in the social sciences. In addition to completing courses in these disciplinary areas, students must fulfill skills requirements by taking two course credits in quantitative reasoning, two course credits in writing, and courses to further their foreign language proficiency. Depending on their level of accomplishment in foreign languages at matriculation, students may fulfill this last requirement with one, two, or three courses or by a combination of course work and approved study abroad. These foundational skills hold the key to many things students will want to know and do in later study and later life. The distributional requirements are the only specific rules limiting the selection of courses outside a student's major program.
學生要選修至少2學分的人文藝術類課程、2學分的自然科學課程以及2學分的社會科學課程。除此以外，學生還必須要通過修習2學分的定量推理課、2學分的寫作課以及能夠提高他們外語水平的外語課，通過這些課程的學習來達到對學生技能方面的要求。依據學生大學入學時的外語水平，學院會要求學生選修一門、兩門或是三門外語課，或是讓他們既修習課程又參加校方批準的出國留學來完成學院對外語方面的要求。這些基本技能對學生以后的學習和生活都至關重要。除學生的專業以外，學院對學生選課的惟一具體規定就是對課程分配方面的要求。
Besides the distributional requirements, you are free to pursue your own interests. There is no restriction in your choice of subjects other than your major-such a flexibility in class shopping. It is said that there are about two thousand subjects which cover nearly all fields of inquiry available for the students to choose. With so many options, sometimes it is really difficult for you to make a decision as to which to follow, because most courses are so fascinating that you do not want to miss any of them.
除了對課程分配方面的強制規定外，你可以隨意選擇自己感興趣的科目，即便是對你專業以外的課程學院也沒有任何限制。據說耶魯開設了 2000多門課程來供學生選擇。面對這么多的選擇，你有時很難決定到底要選哪幾門課，因為大多數課程都是那么的吸引人，以至于你哪一節課都不想錯過。
"Shopping" for the class is a pleasant academic travel, though it is not totally at your pleasure.
選課本身就是一次愉快的學術之旅，盡管你還不能完全隨心所欲地去選擇。
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