Explore our diverse range of academic offerings designed to inspire, challenge, and expand your intellectual horizons. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise in a specific field, explore new areas of interest, or engage with world-class instructors, our courses cater to a variety of academic goals. Browse through our list to discover the opportunities awaiting you this summer, and take the next step in your academic journey at Yale.
AFST S325 (CRN: 30327) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Wyrtzen
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-12.00
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
This course is part of a Yale Summer Session Program Abroad and cannot be taken independent of the program. Interested students must apply to Yale Study Abroad by February 4th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
AMST S259E (CRN: 30338) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Stephen Pitti
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar explores the American West from the sixteenth century to the present, attending to how colonial and national projects have shaped the region, how borders have been understood and policed, how Asian American and Latinx communities have remade rural and urban areas, how activists have driven and responded to contemporary debates, how musicians and visual artists have imagined regional identities, and more. In addition to reading published accounts, participants explore unique archival collections related to the American West at Yale. Enrollment limited to 18 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
AMST S365E (CRN: 30135) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Julian Posada
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar explores the phenomenon of digital platforms – intermediary infrastructures that connect end-users and complementors. These platforms have emerged in diverse socio-economic contexts, including social media (e.g., Instagram), video streaming (e.g., Twitch), digital labor (e.g., Uber), and e-commerce (e.g., Amazon). The course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on studying these platforms, viewed as an amalgamation of firms and multi-sided markets, each with their own distinctive history, governance, and infrastructures. Throughout this course, we will delve into the transformative role of these platforms in areas such as culture, labor, creativity, and democracy. Our discussions will draw upon comparative cases from the United States and abroad. In addition, the seminar aims to facilitate an in-depth dialogue on contemporary capitalism and the process of cultural production. We will engage with pertinent topics like inequality, surveillance, decentralization, and ethics in the digital age. Students are invited to contribute to these discussions by bringing examples and case studies from their personal experiences. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
AMST S483 (CRN: 30038) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Melinda Stang
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Screens large and small have projected, reimagined, and made U.S. history. This course will examine axes of social difference with a media archaeology methodology. With this approach, students will consider 20th and 21st-century U.S. history through comparisons, juxtapositions, and continuities between mediated representations of America’s racially, ethnically, and economically marginalized. In this seminar, students will learn to use film, television, and other mass entertainments as historical documentation that can illuminate the social and cultural history of American domesticity, youth (sub)cultures, racial formations, migration, indigeneity, and activist movements. Students can anticipate watching a mix of films, television shows, and other moving images from across the 20th and 21st centuries, ranging from classic American cinema to YouTube videos. The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00a-12:15p, which will include lectures, short in-class screenings, discussion groups, and structured time for assignments. Assessments will include a mix of methods-based assignments, group presentations, short quizzes, and a final exam in addition to evaluation of participation in discussion groups. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
AMTH S222E (CRN: 30252) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Surya Raghavendran
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: M-F 1.00-2.20
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. Matrix representation of linear equations. Gauss elimination. Vector spaces. Linear independence, basis, and dimension. Orthogonality, projection, least squares approximation; orthogonalization and orthogonal bases. Extension to function spaces. Determinants. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Diagonalization. Difference equations and matrix differential equations. Symmetric and Hermitian matrices. Orthogonal and unitary transformations; similarity transformations. Students who plan to continue with upper level math courses should instead consider MATH 225. After MATH 115 or completed AP BC Calculus with a score of a 4 or 5. May not be taken after MATH 225. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
ANTH S110 (CRN: 30051) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Faith Macharia
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Anthropological study of cosmology, tacit knowledge, and ways of knowing the world in specific social settings. Ways in which sociocultural specificity helps to explain human solutions to problems of cooperation and conflict, production and reproduction, expression, and belief. Introduction to anthropological ways of understanding cultural difference in approaches to sickness and healing, gender and sexuality, economics, religion, and communication. Enrollment limited to 30 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
ANTH S423 (CRN: 30026) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Paul Kockelman
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 1.00-3.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course focuses on the nature of possible worlds: literary worlds (Narnia), ideological worlds (the world according to a particular political stance), psychological worlds (what someone remembers to be the case, wishes to be the case, or believes to be the case), environmental worlds (possible environmental futures), virtual worlds (the World of Warcraft), and—most of all—ethnographic works in which the actual and possible worlds of others are represented (the world according to the ancient Maya). We don’t focus on the contents of such worlds per se, but rather on the range of resources people have for representing, regimenting, and residing in such worlds; and the roles such resources play in mediating social relations and cultural values. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
APHY S120 (CRN: 30056) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Daniel Prober
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Seminar that covers the technology, use, and impact of energy on the environment, climate, security, and the economy. Emphasis on what drives people's choices and how to transition to renewable energy. Tours of energy facilities on the Yale campus. Prerequisite: completion of high school physics and chemistry. Enrollment limited to 30 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
APHY S120E (CRN: 30093) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Daniel Prober
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. Seminar that covers the technology, use, and impact of energy on the environment, climate, security, and the economy. Emphasis on what drives people's choices and how to transition to renewable energy. Tours of energy facilities on the Yale campus. Prerequisite: completion of high school physics and chemistry. Enrollment limited to 30 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
APHY S151E (CRN: 30111) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Mitchell Smooke
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TWTh 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. The course will introduce the engineering and applied science student to multivariable calculus for use in solving problems of physical interest. The course will focus on topics including three-dimensional spaces and vectors, vector-valued functions, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, and vector calculus including Greens', Stokes' and the divergence theorems. Prerequisite: MATH 115 or completed AP BC Calculus with a score of a 4 or 5. Enrollment limited to 25 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
APHY S194E (CRN: 30145) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Mitchell Smooke
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TWTh 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. Basic theory of ordinary and partial differential equations useful in applications. First- and second-order equations, separation of variables, power series solutions, Fourier series, Laplace transforms. Prerequisites: ENAS 151 or MATH 120 or equivalent and knowledge of matrix-based operations. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
ART S111 (CRN: 30062) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Alexander Valentine
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. An introduction to the language of visual expression, using studio projects to explore the fundamental principles of visual art. Students acquire a working knowledge of visual syntax applicable to the study of art history, popular culture, and art. Projects address all four major concentrations (graphic design, printing/printmaking, photography, and sculpture). A list of materials necessary for the course will be distributed to each student on the first day of class and must be purchased by the student. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
ART S138E (CRN: 30099) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Lisa Kereszi
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. The focus of this class is the digital making of still color photographs with particular emphasis on the potential meaning of images in a photo-saturated world. Through picture-making, students develop a personal visual syntax using color and composition for effect, meaning, psychology and narrative possibility. Students produce original work using a required digital camera. Introduction to a range of tools including color correction and fine-tuning. Assignments include prompts, regular critiques with active participation and a final project. Lectures examine the progression of photography as fine art medium and the tradition of handheld, natural-light photography through the 20th century and into contemporary practices in the 21st, focusing on a diversity of voices. Images are discussed and critiqued projected onscreen, and the focus is on the image rather than on the print as object, as students will not learn inkjet printing or have after-hours lab access in this course. Students must have access to a digital camera (DSLR, point-and-shoot or smartphone) and bring it to class. Enrollment limited to 16 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
ART S144 (CRN: 30279) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Sahraa Karimi
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-4.00
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to college students only
This course is part of a Yale Summer Session Program Abroad and cannot be taken independent of the program. Interested students must apply to Yale Study Abroad by February 4th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
ART S167 (CRN: 30027) | Learn More
Instructors: Mianwei Wang
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Interactive design explored through the development of projects that are based online. Concepts of prompt, feedback, and variable conditions; Web-specific design issues such as navigation and pacing, as well as design for variable sizes and devices; best practices in code craft and design. The Web as a social ecosystem in which time and performance play important roles. Instruction in HTML, CSS, and some Javascript. No prior programming experience required. A list of materials necessary for the course will be distributed to each student on the first day of class and must be purchased by the student. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
ASTR S110E (CRN: 30100) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Michael Faison
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 7.00-8.30p
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. An introduction to stars and planetary systems. Topics include the solar system and extrasolar planets, planet and star formation, and the evolution of stars from birth to death. No prerequisite other than a working knowledge of elementary algebra. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
BIOL S105 (CRN: 30029) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Thomas Loreng, Amaleah Hartman
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: M-F 10.30-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Introduction to the study of life at the molecular level and to cell biology and membrane physiology. Topics include the three-dimensional structures and function of large biological molecules, the human genome, the design of antiviral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, organization and functional properties of biological membranes, membrane physiology and signaling, rough endoplasmic reticulum and synthesis of membrane/secretory membrane proteins, endocytosis, the cytoskeleton, and cell division. Covers the material of BIOL 101 and 102, the first half of the yearlong introductory biology sequence. Followed in the summer by BIOL S106. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
BIOL S106 (CRN: 30067) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Amaleah Hartman, Thomas Near
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: M-F 10.30-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. Introduction to genes, genetics, developmental biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and the history of life. How genes control development and disease; Mendel's rules; examples of organ physiology; evolutionary transitions and natural selection; adaptation at genic, chromosomal, cellular, organismal, and supra-organismal levels; distributional and social consequences of particular suites of organismal adaptations. Covers the material of BIOL 103 and 104, the second half of the yearlong introductory biology sequence. Prerequisite: BIOL 101 and 102, or BIOL S105. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
BIOL S300 (CRN: 30045) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Robert Collins
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. An introduction to the biochemistry of animals, plants, and microorganisms, emphasizing the relations of chemical principles and structure to the evolution and regulation of living systems. Prerequisite: BIOL 101 or BIOL 105 and one term of organic chemistry. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
BRST 165 (CRN: 30600) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates:
Course Mode:
Meeting Times: TTh 2.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Debates around Britain’s colonial legacies and decolonization of Britain’s institutions have been at the forefront of public consciousness. Through a series of trips to London’s museums, this course explores the imperial and colonial foundations of the city’s museum collections and their legacies. Students discover how London’s museums constituted the world and Britain’s place within it and constructed and reaffirmed national, imperial, and colonial identities, and continue to do so. Students also examine the various ways museums are attempting to address their colonial legacies through debates around repatriation, restitution, and decolonization, as well as how museums are trying to widen their publics and communities of knowledge in order to disrupt longstanding narratives of power and dominance.
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