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.
PHYS S181E (CRN: 30160) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Mehdi Ghiassi-Nejad
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 11.30-12.30, MTThF 10.00-11.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. A broad introduction to classical and modern physics for students who have some previous preparation in physics and mathematics. Topics include electromagnetism, special relativity, and quantum physics. May be taken concurrently with MATH 115 and 120 or equivalents. May not be taken for credit after PHYS 171. Prerequisite: PHYS 170, 180 or PHYS 200 and MATH 112. Enrollment limited to 50 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PLSC S111 (CRN: 30175) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Tyler Bowen
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. The course provides a grounding for other courses in international relations by introducing students to the study of conflict and cooperation among states through an examination of the major issues, methods, questions, and theories of world politics. Students should leave the course proficient in four key areas, able to: discuss the crucial events of contemporary world politics (WWI – Present); argue the main schools of international relations theory and their approaches; evaluate a social science theory through qualitative or quantitative research; and assess competing explanations for international conflict and cooperation. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
PLSC S113E (CRN: 30161) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Christina Kinane
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-11.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. Introduction to American national government. The Constitution, American political culture, civil rights, Congress, the executive, political parties, public opinion, interest groups, the media, social movements, and the policy-making process. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PLSC S203E (CRN: 30255) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Andrea Aldrich
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This course explores theoretical and empirical work in political science to study the relationship between gender and politics in the United States and around the world. In doing so, we will examine women’s access to power over time, women’s descriptive and substantive representation in political institutions, the causes and consequences of women’s underrepresentation, the way gender shapes both policy making, and how government policy impacts the lives of women. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PLSC S227E (CRN: 30162) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Amir Fairdosi
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 7.00-8.30p
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. This is a survey course on the United States Congress. We will explore such questions as: What are the causes and effects of political polarization? How would term limits affect policy outcomes? What is the effect of money on Congress? Where do/should constituents fit in in all this? How does Congress interact with the President and the bureaucracy? How does one run for office? Why is Congress’s approval rating lower than any other institution in the country? The course is divided into two parts. In Part I, we discuss the theoretical and historical foundations of legislative government the United States. In Part II, we move beyond theories of legislating and on to the way Congress operates in practice. Enrollment limited to 21 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PLSC S240 (CRN: 30218) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Eleanor Schiff
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. While Americans’ attention is often focused on events in Washington, D.C. and the activities of the president and the Congress. Arguably, however, the policies enacted in state houses and city councils have a more direct effect on citizens’ everyday lives than the activities in our Nation’s capital. State and local politics includes a myriad of issues that have an important effect on citizens including welfare, elections, healthcare, social policies, education, criminal law, infrastructure, and many others. Understanding how state institutions and behavior shape policy outcomes is not only substantively interesting, but the states also provide political scientists with opportunities to examine larger questions about topics such as power, representation, and responsiveness. This course will address both how the states themselves are substantively interesting, as well as how they are used to understand broader issues in political science and governance. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
PLSC S270E (CRN: 30123) | 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.
PLSC S275 (CRN: 30226) | 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.
PLSC S384 (CRN: 30229) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Lawrence Vogel
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 9.00-11.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. In-person Course. The question of free will matters because it seems fair to hold people morally responsible for what they do only if they act of their own free will. But do human beings have free will? If so, what is it, and how is it related to moral and legal responsibility? If we don’t have free will, how can we justify our ordinary moral responses: judgments of praise and blame, morally laden emotions like pride, indignation, shame and guilt, and practices of reward and punishment? Even if much of our behavior is freely chosen, there are times when people are excused for wrongful acts or even exempted from moral responsibility altogether. How do excuses and exemptions function? Are we becoming a society that diminishes the value of personal responsibility by accepting too many excuses? Or are we more enlightened and humane when we appreciate how limited personal responsibility is in the face of biological and environmental “givens” and historical and social circumstances that move people to behave as they do? We shall pay special attention to the phenomenon of complicity in the wake of social pressure to comply with wrongdoing. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
PLSC S466E (CRN: 30266) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Elli Stern
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar explores the history of right-wing political thought from the late eighteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the role played by religious and pagan traditions. This course seeks to answer the questions: what constitutes the right? What are the central principles and values of those groups associated with this designation? And what are the defining features of what is commonly referred to as the “global right?” It will do so by examining primary tracts written by theologians, political philosophers, and social theorists as well as secondary literature written by scholars interrogating various movements and ideologies associated with the Right in America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Though touching on specific national political parties, institutions, and think tanks, its focus will be on mapping the intellectual similarities and differences between various right-wing ideologies. The “Right” emerged alongside its counterpoint, the "left," as early as 1692 to describe the congregation patterns surrounding the French Monarch, but it was not until the Revolution of 1789 when it gained its current political meaning. As the French Chamber of Deputies debated the rights of man and royal veto powers it was suggested that opponents to these measures sit du côté droit, while supporters place themselves du côté gauche. The division, many complained, was too absolute and left no room for nuance or political idiosyncrasies. Yet the arrangement held, the terms stuck, and by mid-century the right had begun to be a catchall for a host of political groups, including conservatives, traditionalists, authoritarians, royalists, nationalists and papists. By the twentieth century the term would be stretched to include movements ranging from Fascism to Populism and would be used to describe the political position of political parties in the Middle East and Asia. Though primarily associated with European and parliamentary politics, increasingly the designation of the right has been applied to Evangelical and Judeo-Christian groups in the United States. (The HIST cross-listing counts as a history "J" departmental seminar). 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PORT S112 (CRN: 30190) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Elizabeth Jackson
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.00
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.
PORT S122 (CRN: 30191) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Elizabeth Jackson
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.00
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.
PORT S352 (CRN: 30192) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Kenneth David Jackson
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: MWTh 1.30-3.30
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.
PSYC S110E (CRN: 30163) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Yarrow Dunham
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 7.30-9.00p
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. A survey of major psychological approaches to the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional bases of behavior. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PSYC S110E (CRN: 30132) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Stephanie Lazzaro
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-11.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. A survey of major psychological approaches to the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional bases of behavior. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PSYC S152E (CRN: 30159) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Paul Bloom
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 4.00-6.00p
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. The modern science of moral thought and moral action explored through disciplines such as cognitive science, social and developmental psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and analytic philosophy. Empathy and compassion in babies and young children; emotional reactions to family, friends, and strangers; the origins of prejudice and bigotry; sexuality, disgust, and purity; punishment, revenge, and forgiveness; the relationship between morality and religion. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PSYC S179E (CRN: 30133) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 3.00-4.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Session B course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. A survey of psychological studies on thinking and reasoning, with discussion of ways to improve thinking skills. Topics include judgments and decision making, causal learning, logical reasoning, problem solving, creativity, intelligence, moral reasoning, and language and thought. Enrollment limited to 17 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
RLST S324E (CRN: 30263) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Elli Stern
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar explores the history of right-wing political thought from the late eighteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the role played by religious and pagan traditions. This course seeks to answer the questions: what constitutes the right? What are the central principles and values of those groups associated with this designation? And what are the defining features of what is commonly referred to as the “global right?” It will do so by examining primary tracts written by theologians, political philosophers, and social theorists as well as secondary literature written by scholars interrogating various movements and ideologies associated with the Right in America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Though touching on specific national political parties, institutions, and think tanks, its focus will be on mapping the intellectual similarities and differences between various right-wing ideologies. The “Right” emerged alongside its counterpoint, the "left," as early as 1692 to describe the congregation patterns surrounding the French Monarch, but it was not until the Revolution of 1789 when it gained its current political meaning. As the French Chamber of Deputies debated the rights of man and royal veto powers it was suggested that opponents to these measures sit du côté droit, while supporters place themselves du côté gauche. The division, many complained, was too absolute and left no room for nuance or political idiosyncrasies. Yet the arrangement held, the terms stuck, and by mid-century the right had begun to be a catchall for a host of political groups, including conservatives, traditionalists, authoritarians, royalists, nationalists and papists. By the twentieth century the term would be stretched to include movements ranging from Fascism to Populism and would be used to describe the political position of political parties in the Middle East and Asia. Though primarily associated with European and parliamentary politics, increasingly the designation of the right has been applied to Evangelical and Judeo-Christian groups in the United States. (The HIST cross-listing counts as a history "J" departmental seminar). 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
RUSS S110 (CRN: 30193) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Julia Titus
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.30-1.20
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.
RUSS S120 (CRN: 30194) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Julia Titus
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.30-1.20
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.
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