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 S2680 (CRN: 30177) | Learn More
Instructors: Julian Posada
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
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 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
FILM S3400 (CRN: 30079) | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Smith
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-10.15, M-F 1.00-2.15
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
FILM S3500 (CRN: 30080) | Learn More
Instructors: Brian Price
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 2.00-5.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course provides a thorough examination of the fundamentals of the screenwriting craft, including story, structure, character, description, dialogue, and format. Through lectures, discussions, readings, screenings, and workshopping of student work, students will learn what goes into a professional screenplay as they develop a feature-length screenplay from premise to outline to pages, with a focus on effective plot construction, memorable character development, creating "cinematic" dialogue, conflict, subtext, and visual storytelling. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
FILM S3930 (CRN: 30277) | Learn More
Instructors: Marijeta Bozovic
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Internet cultures have transformed our world over the past several decades, as human beings seemingly overnight learned to depend on computer networks for various kinds of work, military operations, pursuits of knowledge, religion, political organization, searches for love and community, illegal activities, and infinite varieties of play. The very size of this “cultural production” defies understanding and seems to defy study. This course serves as an introduction to interdisciplinary but humanities-centered approaches to Internet studies. Our seminar tackles a gargantuan open topic through three lenses: histories, network studies, and cultural studies. We will study and discuss ideas that stem from fields as diverse as media studies, digital humanities, economics, linguistic anthropology, history of science, and statistics. The course will highlight the possibilities and limitations of digital tools and encourage critical thinking about the networks that surround us and mediate our cultural experiences—and which the majority of us use with little understanding of how search tools, categorization systems, citation counts, and more shape and limit our knowledge. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
FREN S1300 (CRN: 30081) | Learn More
Instructors: Matuku Ngame
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
FREN S1400 (CRN: 30082) | Learn More
Instructors: 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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
FREN S3040 (CRN: 30239) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
FREN S3690 (CRN: 30083) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
FREN S9999 (CRN: 30084) | Learn More
Instructors: Rachel Watson
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-12.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
GLBL S2110 (CRN: 30158) | Learn More
Instructors: Jasmina Besirevic Regan
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
GLBL S2159 (CRN: 30262) | Learn More
Instructors: Zvika Neeman
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. An introduction to the theory of multi-person decision problems and its application in economic analysis. Discussion of static and dynamic noncooperative games with particular attention to the notions of Nash equilibrium and sub-game perfect equilibrium. Prerequisite: knowledge of basic calculus and probability recommended. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
GLBL S3129 (CRN: 30225) | Learn More
Instructors: Daniel Mattingly
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
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. Study of the international relations and foreign policy of contemporary China. Topics include war, diplomacy, grand strategy, the military, cyber security, finance, trade, domestic politics, nuclear weapons, and international crises. There are no formal prerequisites, but some basic knowledge of China is assumed, so a background equivalent to having taken one of the introductory courses on China is recommended. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480.
GLBL S3430 (CRN: 30085) | Learn More
Instructors: Asha Rangappa
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-10.45
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
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. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
GLBL S3700 (CRN: 30086) | Learn More
Instructors: Bonnie Weir
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: MTWTh 11.00-3.00
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
GMAN S1300 (CRN: 30087) | 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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
GMAN S1400 (CRN: 30088) | Learn More
Instructors: Karoline Kiefel
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
GMAN S1900 (CRN: 30211) | Learn More
Instructors: Paul North
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
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 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
GMAN S9999 (CRN: 30089) | Learn More
Instructors: Theresa Schenker
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
HIST S2252 (CRN: 30244) | Learn More
Instructors: Sergei Antonov
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This seminar is about Russia’s most memorable and influential political leaders – princes, tsars, general secretaries, and presidents, from Ivan IV (1530-1584) to the present day. Their personalities are often said to encapsulate their entire epoch. Their power of life and death was and is enormous. They are often also said to have been frustrated, deeply conflicted, even tragically helpless to respond to the challenges of their day. To make sense of this enduring appeal, we will examine Russia’s historical tradition of political leadership. We’ll begin with medieval Eastern Slavic conceptions of kingship and chart the development of the unlimited autocratic monarchy as a key political institution in Russia, its demise in the early twentieth century, its forceful regeneration in the Soviet Union, and its survival of the latter’s collapse. Each session will discuss the ways in which rulers structured their power through institutions and personal networks; the ways they presented themselves to their subjects through larger-than-life images and narratives; and also the ways in which ordinary individuals responded to these myths and images. No previous knowledge of Russia or the Russian language is expected, but students must be able to keep up with the readings and to quickly look up unfamiliar information: the course is not meant to serve as an entry-level narrative of Russian history, but rather to focus on several key themes. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
HIST S2299 (CRN: 30090) | Learn More
Instructors: Jasmina Besirevic Regan
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 January 20th. For more detailed information about the program, including a description of the courses, instructors, housing, excursions, and budget, visit the Yale Study Abroad program page.
