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.
AFAM S3359 (CRN: 30260) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Tasha Hawthorne
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. In this course we will read and consider multiple styles and/or genres of writing—poetry, the short story, the essay, —with the goal of developing an understanding of what the major political, social, and aesthetic concerns were for Black women writers during the early part of the 20th century. Central to this course, and to understanding and engaging the literature, will be a critical appreciation of the historical moments that surround these writings. We will look closely at how 19th and 20th century Black women writers fashion themselves in the world and how such fashioning reflected their conceptualization of their selfhood and identity—specifically in the ways in which they identified via race, class, gender, and sexuality. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
ART S1514 (CRN: 30031) | Learn More
Instructors: Lachell Workman
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person course. This introductory drawing course teaches students to recognize and manipulate fundamental elements of line, tone, volume, form, and composition. Assignments address technical and conceptual issues evoked by Art History and contemporary art practice. Through intense observation, drawing, and critiques, students will develop a drawing practice that combines technical mastery, experimentation, and critical thinking. No prior drawing experience is required. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
CENG S3000 (CRN: 30042) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Michael Loewenberg
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWTh 5.30-7.00p
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. This is a rigorous introductory course in thermodynamics. Material will include the first and second laws of thermodynamics, cyclic processes, chemical reaction and phase equilibria, and an introduction to statistical thermodynamics. The goal of this course is for students to obtain the necessary qualitative knowledge and quantitative skills for solving engineering science problems in thermodynamics. Prerequisite: MATH 1200 or ENAS 1510 or multivariable calculus. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
CHEM S2230 (CRN: 30047) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Parr
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 12.30-4.30
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. Introductory laboratory course covering basic synthetic and analytic techniques in organic chemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM 2220L or S2220; with CHEM 2210 or after but not before. For college students and beyond. 1/2 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $2740.
CPSC S4794 (CRN: 30052) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Michael Shah
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 6.00-9.15p
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. This course teaches the fundamentals of computational geometry by applying mathematical techniques in applied domains such as graphics, physics engines, robotics, and computer-aided design. Students exercise geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, and projective geometry mathematical skills by building physics engines, motion planning systems, graphics systems, and a final project. Foundational computational geometry algorithms and techniques are first introduced including: polygon triangulations, convex hulls, intersections, voronoi diagrams, curves, and mesh manipulation as foundational topics. A primer on various algebra and geometry mathematics to apply these techniques in the example domains is given. Students develop a final course project for their portfolio. Prerequisites: CPSC 2230 and CPSC 2020 (or equivalent course- ex. MATH 2440) For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
ENGL S1023 (CRN: 30068) | Learn More
Instructors: R Clifton Spargo
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. Introduction to the writing of fiction, poetry, and drama. Development of the basic skills used to create imaginative literature. Fundamentals of craft and composition; the distinct but related techniques used in the three genres. Story, scene, and character in fiction; sound, line, image, and voice in poetry; monologue, dialogue, and action in drama. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
ENGL S2461 (CRN: 30258) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Tara McKelvey
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course teaches the craft of writing nonfiction. Students learn how to produce features, essays, and profiles, and develop skills in critical thinking. Through close readings of exemplary reportage, students acquire a deeper understanding of narrative structure. Above all, this class shows students how to see the world as a writer. It is an exhilarating experience, one that will expand your horizons, and it comes in part from being out and about—visiting places, talking to people, and taking notes. By the end of the course, students will have a new language for understanding the world, a richer, more literary one, and will be able to tell stories with verve and confidence. Students will tackle contemporary works of journalism and earlier pieces, including nineteenth-century dispatches and investigative articles. Students will look at ways that news organizations have served to fortify democratic principles such as freedom of expression and the rule of law, then and today. Students will grapple with real-life ethical questions and will leave the class with a better understanding of the role of the media in a liberal democracy. 2 Credits. Session B: June 29 – July 31. (This course is part of the YSS Program in Journalism. Program Cost: $10,805. Please refer to the program website for more details.)
FILM S3500 (CRN: 30080) | Syllabus | 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.
HIST S2252 (CRN: 30244) | Syllabus | 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.
MENG S2050 (CRN: 30290) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Ronald Adrezin, Marcus Johnson
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 6.00-9.15p
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. Aspects of computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM). The computer's role in the mechanical design and manufacturing process; commercial tools for two- and three-dimensional drafting and assembly modeling; finite-element analysis software for modeling mechanical, thermal, and fluid systems. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
RUSS S3032 (CRN: 30245) | Syllabus | 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.
SLAV S3032 (CRN: 30246) | Syllabus | 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.
TDPS S3001 (CRN: 30167) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Kimberly Jannarone
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 1.00-3.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This seminar reads illustrative texts of dramatic literature from the Anglo-European world in, roughly, the twentieth century and the two adjacent "turns of the century." We will read with an eye toward discovering the unique ways authors adjusted theatrical form, content, and event to new conditions of modernity. Our specific focus will be close-reading plays, looking at how playwrights create worlds through devices such as plot, characterization, imagery, etc., as well as through the conception of the audience/performer relationship; considerations of time, tempo, musicality; visual dramaturgy; non-linearity and repetition; coding and transcribing; and other dramaturgical devices that took on unique importance and new forms in the modern era. We will read one play a week, establishing its historical context and examining different approaches of playwriting and world-making. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
WGSS S2263 (CRN: 30170) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Maria Trumpler
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-2.30
Distributional Requirements: Writing
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. Based in methodology from gender and sexuality studies, we use the grain rye as a focal point to offer a highly interdisciplinary exploration of the biology, agriculture, changing cultural importance, culinary practice and mythology around “rye.” Part of a collaboration with the Bread Lab at Washington State University, this class will include an examination of when, how and where desire for rye food products flourished and waned, how different knowledges co-exist about “rye” including the embodied practices of women who bake with rye as well as the knowledge that rye itself might contain. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
AFAM S3372 (CRN: 30208) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course cancelled. In-person Course. In 2001, “Freestyle”, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9-11 pre-Obama world. Post-black stirred much controversy 24 years ago, because it was used for a generation of artists that seemed to distance themselves from previous generations, who utilized the term Black to define their practices as a form of political resistance. This seminar utilizes the term post-black as a starting point to investigate the different ways Black Artists identified themselves through the lens of their historical contexts, writings, and politics while engaging with key debates around Black Aesthetics in exhibitions and theory. Consequently, we will discuss changes in artistic styles and Black identity discourses from the beginning of the 20th century into the present. However, the claims that the post-black generation made, and the influence of their work, are part of an ongoing debate in African Diasporic Art, which has refreshed and posed new questions for art-historical research as well as curation. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480.
AMST S1021 (CRN: 30197) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Charles Musser
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 6.00-8.30p
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. A study of the interrelations among popular sport, cinema, television, radio, print, and social media. Explores topics of identity, commerce, and civics through contemporary texts (Hunger Games, Senna, Invictus), and introduces the history of sport in media culture. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
AMST S2254 (CRN: 30023) | Learn More
Instructors: Minh Vu
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
Course closed to further enrollment. In-person Course. This seminar examines Asian American history and culture through the lens of affect. Whether the political demands of revolutionaries and rebels in the 1970s, the broken English of stereotyped Asian immigrants on TV, or the melancholic musings of “cut fruit” diaspora poets, affect—in other words: emotion, or etymologically, the capacity to “move” or be “moved”—generates social constructs around Asian American race, gender, and sexuality. Historically, affect has worked with and through the economic, the political, and the cultural to generate categories including (but not limited to) the orient, the indebted refugee, and the model minority. By studying a range of contemporary cultural representations—across poetry, literature, film, and music—students will consider how Asian Americans reproduce and/or trouble these reductive tropes by exhibiting and embodying their own dis/affective poetics and politics. Example texts and themes include but are not limited to: Yoko Ono, Ocean Vuong, Crazy Rich Asians, Beef, Kim’s Convenience, nerds, rave culture, “sad girl music,” and YouTube personalities (nigahiga, Lilly Singh, and Wong Fu Productions). 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
AMST S3365 (CRN: 30025) | Syllabus | 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.
AMTH S2220 (CRN: 30212) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Surya Raghavendran
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: M-F 1.00-2.20
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
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 2250. May not be taken after MATH 2250 or 2260. Prerequisite: MATH 1150 or AP BC Calculus with a score of 4 or 5. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
AMTH S2440 (CRN: 30213) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Meghan Anderson
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWF 1.00-3.15
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. Basic concepts and results in discrete mathematics: graphs, trees, connectivity, Ramsey theorem, enumeration, binomial coefficients, Stirling numbers. Properties of finite set systems. Prerequisite: MATH 1150 completed AP BC Calculus with a score of a 4 or 5. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
