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.
FILM S350E (CRN: 30120) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Brian Price
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 course will provide a rigorous examination of the fundamentals of the screenwriting craft, including story, structure, character, dialogue, and formatting. Through lectures, discussions, readings, screenings, and weekly writing exercises, students will learn what goes into a professional screenplay as they develop stories, outlines, character bios, and pages of a feature-length screenplay idea and then pitch, outline, and write a complete original short screenplay. We will focus on plot construction, character development, creating "cinematic" dialogue, conflict, subtext, and visual storytelling. Assignments and pages will be read aloud and critiqued. Enrollment limited to 14 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
FILM S374E (CRN: 30324) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Xueli Wang
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. The Hong Kong New Wave (1980s-2000s) was an intensely creative period of film and cultural production whose influence continues to reverberate through the world today. This course will survey key figures, works, trends, and contexts of the Hong Kong New Wave movement, beginning with proto-New Wave developments in the 1960s and 70s and ending with its afterlives in recent Hollywood productions. Sessions will be structured around ten films by directors including Wong Kar-Wai, Tsui Hark, Patrick Tam, Tang Shu Shuen, Angie Chen, Stanley Kwan, and Ann Hui. We will examine their works formally, through shot-by-shot analysis, as well as in relation to broader cultural and political developments, such as the 1967 anti-colonial riots, the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, the 1997 handover, the formation of new ciné-clubs and film magazines, the rise of television and piracy, and recent pro-democracy movements. We will also consider pertinent questions of genre, stardom, reception and fandom, history and memory, gender and sexuality, protest and dissent, and what constitutes “Hong Kongness” in relation to postcoloniality, globalization, and nationalism. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
FREN S130 (CRN: 30203) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Matuku Ngame, Soumia Koundi
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S140 (CRN: 30204) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Matuku Ngame, Soumia Koundi
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S154 (CRN: 30268) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Ramla Bedoui
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: MW 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S164 (CRN: 30269) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Louis Turcat
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: MW 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S304 (CRN: 30285) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Maile Hutterer
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.00
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.
FREN S369 (CRN: 30273) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Richard Riddick
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.00
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.
FREN S999E (CRN: 30121) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Rachel Watson
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-12.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
GLBL S211 (CRN: 30284) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jasmina Besirevic Regan
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.
GLBL S275 (CRN: 30225) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Katherine Ingram
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Introduction to major approaches and central topics in the field of international security, with primary focus on the principal man-made threats to human security: the use of violence among and within states, both by state and non-state actors. Approaches to International Security is a course dedicated to understanding (1) why states, groups, and people go to war, (2) how conflicts can be avoided, (3) emerging trends in world conflicts. The course discusses major theories of war and relates those theories to historical examples and current conflicts across the world. Enrollment limited to 24 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
GLBL S343E (CRN: 30122) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Asha Rangappa
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-10.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. This course explores the evolution of information warfare as a national security threat to the United States. Beginning with the KGB’s use of “active measures” during the Cold War, the course looks at how propaganda and disinformation campaigns became central to the Putin regime and how social media has facilitated their expansion and impact. Using Russia’s efforts in the 2016 election as an example, students will examine how the First Amendment places limitations on the U.S.’s ability to counter such operations in the United States and explore how strengthening critical thinking and American social capital might be effective prophylactics against these efforts. Enrollment limited to 18 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
GLBL S361 (CRN: 30328) | 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.
GMAN S130 (CRN: 30201) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Theresa Schenker
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
GMAN S140 (CRN: 30202) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Lieselotte Sippel
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
GMAN S190 (CRN: 30212) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Paul North
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. The nature, history, and possible meanings of dream experience, with reference to Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. Works from film and literature about dreams and dreaming, as well as major texts in dream theory. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
HIST S108E (CRN: 30337) | 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.
HIST S174J (CRN: 30344) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Deborah Streahle
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course explores the material culture of American medicine. From instruments like thermometers and scalpels to imaging tools like X-rays and MRIs to everyday aids like glasses, prosthetics and fitness tracking apps—technology suffuses medicine today. In this course, we will analyze particular technologies as both physical and cultural objects in historical context. In addition to investigating the definition of medical technology, we will also consider a range of themes and questions, among them: why do some technologies succeed and others fail? What is the relationship between medical technology and power? How do race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the creation and use of medical technology? We will pay particular attention to the themes of expertise, authority, and identity. In addition to reading primary and secondary sources, we will work closely with materials from the Medical Historical Library. Students can expect to emerge from the course prepared to analyze medical technologies and place them in historical context in American medicine. The course will culminate in a student-run exhibition of medical technologies. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
HIST S187 (CRN: 30039) | 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.
HIST S236 (CRN: 30329) | 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.
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