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Yale Summer Session Course Syllabi

[Note] The syllabi included on this page are for courses offered during Summer 2025. The list of courses that will be offered in 2026 will be updated in December, and we will begin posting syllabi in early spring 2026. 

These syllabi are provided as a reference for students; they are subject to change prior to the start of the course. The instructor will provide the official course syllabus upon the first day of class.

[FAQ]African American Studies (AFAM)

AFAM S173 - Race and Slavery in Yale's Archives

[FAQ]American Studies (AMST)

AMST S220 - Cultural Politics of Cumbia Music & Dance

AMST S248E - Asian American Drama

AMST S254 - Asian American Affect: The Cultural Politics of Emotion 

AMST S259E - The American West: Race, Resistance, and Representation 

AMST S283 - Race and Slavery in Yale's Archives

AMST S365E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

AMST S483 - Film, Video, & American History

[FAQ]Anthropology (ANTH)

ANTH S110 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH S324E - Urban Education & Housing Policy

ANTH S412 - Ethnographies of Struggle

ANTH S423 - The Anthropology of Possible Worlds

ANTH S441E - Gender & Citizenship in the Middle East

ANTH S462 - Global Health Ethnography

ANTH S464 - Human Osteology

[FAQ]Applied Mathematics (AMTH)

AMTH S222E - Linear Algebra with Applications

[FAQ]Applied Physics (APHY)

APHY S120 - Energy, Environment, and Policy

APHY S120E - Energy, Environment, and Policy

APHY S151E - Multivariable Calculus for Engineers

APHY S194E - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations with Applications

[FAQ]Archaeological Studies (ARCG)

ARCG S464 - Human Osteology

[FAQ]Architecture (ARCH)

ARCH S326E - Architecture and Modernity

[FAQ]Art (ART)

ART S111 - Visual Thinking

ART S115 - Basic Drawing

ART S130 - Painting Basics

ART S138E - Introduction to Digital Photography

ART S167 - Introduction to Interactive Design

[FAQ]American Sign Language (ASL)

ASL S110 - American Sign Language I

ASL S120 - American Sign Language II

[FAQ]Astronomy (ASTR)

ASTR S110E - Planets and Stars

ASTR S120 - Galaxies and the Universe

[FAQ]Biology (BIOL)

BIOL S105 - Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Cell Biology

BIOL S106 - Genes, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

BIOL S300 - Biochemistry

[FAQ]Chemical Engineering (CENG)

CENG S105E - Introduction to Green Energy Systems (GES)

CENG S150E - Engineering Improv: An Introduction to Engineering Analysis

CENG S300E - Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

[FAQ]Chemistry (CHEM)

CHEM S101 - Chemistry in Context

CHEM S134L - General Chemistry Laboratory I

CHEM S136L - General Chemistry Laboratory II

CHEM S161 - General Chemistry I

CHEM S165 - General Chemistry II

CHEM S220 - Organic Chemistry I

CHEM S221 - Organic Chemistry II

CHEM S222L - Lab for Organic Chemistry I

CHEM S223L - Lab for Organic Chemistry II

[FAQ]Child Study (CHLD)

CHLD S350E - Autism and Related Disorders

[FAQ]Classical Civilization (CLCV)

CLCV S202 - Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World

CLCV S244E - Goddess, Queen, Mother, Midwife: Women in Classical Antiquity

CLCV S419 - Ancient Empires

[FAQ]Cognitive Science (CGSC)

CGSC S152E - Moralities of Everyday Life

[FAQ] Comparative Literature (LITR)

LITR S311 - The Logic of Dreams

[FAQ]Computer Science (CPSC)

CPSC S112 - Introduction to Programming

CPSC S123 - YData: An Introduction to Data Science

CPSC S134 - Programming Musical Applications

CPSC S202 - Mathematical Tools for Computer Science

CPSC S365 - Algorithms

[FAQ]Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)

EPS S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

EPS S120E - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

EPS S130 - Global Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle

[FAQ]East Asian Languages and Literature (EALL)

EALL S212 - Ancient Chinese Thought

EALL S260 - Japanese Anime and Manga: Critical Approaches

EALL S374E - Hong Kong New Wave Film and Media

[FAQ]Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (E&EB)

E&EB S115 - Conservation Biology 

E&EB S464 - Human Osteology

[FAQ]Economics (ECON)

ECON S115E - Introduction to Microeconomics

ECON S116E - Introduction to Macroeconomics

ECON S117E - Introduction to Data Analysis and Econometrics

ECON S159 - Game Theory

ECON S225E - Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management

ECON S281E - Causes and Consequences of Corruption

ECON S328 - Topics in International Economics

ECON S365 - Algorithms

[FAQ]Education Studies (EDST)

EDST S151E - Have We Lost Faith in Higher Education?

EDST S255E - Race, Inequality, and Urban Education and Housing Policy

[FAQ]Energy Studies (ENRG)

ENRG S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

ENRG S120E - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

[FAQ]Engineering and Applied Science (ENAS)

ENAS S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

ENAS S120E - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

ENAS S151E - Multivariable Calculus for Engineers

ENAS S194E - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations with Applications

[FAQ]English (ENGL)

ENGL S114 - Writing Seminars I: The Art of Time (30024)

ENGL S114 - Writing Seminars I: Nostalgia (30025)

ENGL S120E - Reading and Writing the Modern Essay

ENGL S121 - Writing about Politics

ENGL S121E - Writing about Cities 

ENGL S123E - Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL S126 - Readings in English Poetry II

ENGL S127E - Readings in American Literature

ENGL S128 - Readings in Comparative World English Literatures

ENGL S201E - Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies

ENGL S287E - Literature and the Future

ENGL S404 - Reading Fiction for Craft

ENGL S410 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

[FAQ]Environmental Studies (EVST)

EVST S121 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

EVST S121E - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

EVST S264E - Introduction to Environmental Health

[FAQ]Ethics, Politics and Economics (EP&E)

EP&E S354 - The Ethics of AI

EP&E S399E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

EP&E S404 - Ethnographies of Struggle

EP&E S417 - Animal Ethics Today

EP&E S421E - Ethics and the Law: Death Penalty, Wrongful Convictions and Best Practices in Criminal Justice

[FAQ]Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M)

ER&M S120 - Cultural Politics of Cumbia Music & Dance

ER&M S168E - Asian American Drama

ER&M S295E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

ER&M S315E - Asian American Foodways

ER&M S326 - Asian American Affect: The Cultural Politics of Emotion

ER&M S340E - The American West: Race, Resistance, and Representation

ER&M S387E - Migrants and Borders in the Americas

ER&M S391 - Histories of Racism in Science, Medicine, and the University

[FAQ]Film & Media Studies (FILM)

FILM S188E - Sports and Media

FILM S205 - Japanese Anime and Manga: Critical Approaches

FILM S208E -The Business of Film

FILM S247 - Film, Video, & American History

FILM S268E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

FILM S350E - Screenwriting

FILM S374E - Hong Kong New Wave Film and Media

[FAQ]French (FREN)

FREN S999E - French for Reading

[FAQ]German (GMAN)

GMAN S190 - The Logic of Dreams 

GMAN S999E - German for Reading

[FAQ]Global Affairs (GLBL)

GLBL S275 - Approaches to International Security

GLBL S313E - The United Nations on the Ground 

GLBL S343E - Disinformation and Democracy

[FAQ]Global Health Studies (HLTH)

HLTH S225E - Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management 

HLTH S264E - Introduction to Environmental Health

[FAQ]History (HIST)

HIST S108E - The American West: Race, Resistance, and Representation

HIST S173 - Race and Slavery in Yale's Archives 

HIST S174J - Technology and American Medicine

HIST S179E - Poverty and Public Health in 20th Century US History

HIST S187 - Film, Video & American History

HIST S268E - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

HIST S282E - Goddess, Queen, Mother, Midwife: Women in Classical Antiquity

HIST S402 - Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World

[FAQ]History of Art (HSAR)

HSAR S223 - Art Since 1945

[FAQ]History of Science and Medicine (HSHM)

HSHM S428 - Technology and American Medicine 

HSHM S455 - Histories of Racism in Science, Medicine, and the University

HSHM S461E - Poverty and Public Health in 20th Century US History

[FAQ]Humanities (HUMS)

HUMS S221 - The Logic of Dreams

HUMS S225E - Medicine and the Humanities: Certainty and Unknowing

HUMS S260 - Free Will and Moral Responsibility

HUMS S411 - Life Worth Living

[FAQ]Italian (ITAL)

ITAL S999E - Italian for Reading

[FAQ]Judaic Studies (JDST)

JDST S351E - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

[FAQ]Latin (LATN)

LATN S110E - Beginning Latin: The Elements of Latin Grammar

LATN S120E - Beginning Latin: Review of Grammar and Selected Readings

[FAQ]Latin American Studies (LAST)

LAST S213 - Ethnographies of Struggle

[FAQ]Linguistics (LING)

LING S110 - Introduction to Linguistics

[FAQ]Mathematics (MATH)

MATH S112E - Calculus of Functions of One Variable I

MATH S115E - Calculus of Functions of One Variable II

MATH S120E - Calculus of Functions of Several Variables

MATH S222E - Linear Algebra with Applications

MATH S244E - Discrete Mathematics

[FAQ]Mechanical Engineering (MENG)

MENG S280E - Mechanical Engineering I: Strength and Deformation of Mechanical Elements

MENG S383E - Mechanical Engineering III: Dynamics

[FAQ]Modern Middle East Studies (MMES)

MMES S430E - Gender & Citizenship in the Middle East

[FAQ]Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B)

MB&B S200 - Biochemistry

[FAQ]Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

MCDB S205 - Cell Biology

MCDB S300 - Biochemistry

MCDB S320 - Neurobiology

[FAQ]Music (MUSI)

MUSI S110E - Elements of Musical Pitch and Time

MUSI S152 - The Cover Song: Remaking Musical Meaning

MUSI S207 - Commercial Popular Music Theory

MUSI S290E - Electronic Dance Music: Fundamentals

MUSI S426 - Programming Musical Applications

[FAQ]Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)

NELC S119 - Ancient Empires

[FAQ]Neuroscience (NSCI)

NSCI S320 - Neurobiology

[FAQ]Philosophy (PHIL)

PHIL S110 - Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL S152E - Moralities of Everyday Life

PHIL S160 - Free Will and Moral Responsibility

PHIL S178 - Introduction to Political Philosophy

PHIL S183E - Philosophy and Technology

PHIL S203 - Ancient Chinese Thought

PHIL S354 - The Ethics of AI

PHIL S417 - Animal Ethics Today

[FAQ]Physics (PHYS)

PHYS S101E - Movie Physics

PHYS S102E - Hollywood Astrophysics

PHYS S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

PHYS S120E - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

PHYS S165L - General Physics Laboratory

PHYS S166L - General Physics Laboratory

PHYS S180E - University Physics

PHYS S181E - University Physics

[FAQ]Political Science (PLSC)

PLSC S111 - Introduction to International Relations

PLSC S113E - Introduction to American Politics

PLSC S167 - International Human Rights and Politics

PLSC S203E - Women, Politics, and Policy

PLSC S227E - The United States Congress

PLSC S240 - U.S. State and Local Politics

PLSC S270E - Disinformation and Democracy

PLSC S275 - Approaches to International Security

PLSC S351 - YData: An Introduction to Data Science

PLSC S384 - Free Will and Moral Responsibility

PLSC S466E - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

[FAQ]Psychology (PSYC)

PSYC S110E - Introduction to Psychology (Session A)

PSYC S110E - Introduction to Psychology (Session B)

PSYC S152E - Moralities of Everyday Life

PSYC S179E - Thinking

PSYC S180E - Introduction to Clinical Psychology

PSYC S350E - Autism and Related Disorders

PSYC S434E - The Psychology of Changing One's Mind

[FAQ]Religious Studies (RLST)

RLST S324E - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

[FAQ]Sociology (SOCI)

SOCY S101 - Introduction to Sociology

SOCY S151E - Foundations of Modern Social Theory

SOCY S175E - Have We Lost Faith in Higher Education?

[FAQ]Spanish (SPAN)

SPAN S999E - Spanish for Reading

[FAQ]Statistics and Data Sciences (S&DS)

S&DS S100E - Introductory Statistics

S&DS S123 - YData: An Introduction to Data Science

S&DS S230E - Data Exploration and Analysis

S&DS S363E - Multivariate Statistics for Social Sciences

[FAQ]Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS)

TDPS S238E - Asian American Drama

[FAQ]Theater Studies (THST)

THST S343 - Public Speaking

THST S393 - Modern Drama in Literature and Art

[FAQ]Urban Studies (URBN)

URBN S317E - Urban Education & Housing Policy

URBN S335E - Writing about Cities

[FAQ]Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)

WGSS S204E - Women, Politics, and Policy

WGSS S254 - Asian American Affect: The Cultural Politics of Emotion

WGSS S263E - Rye: Cultural History and Embodied Practice

WGSS S294E - Goddess, Queen, Mother, Midwife: Women in Classical Antiquity

WGSS S430E - Gender & Citizenship in the Middle East

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