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Writing About Cities

URBN S335E (CRN: 30220) | Syllabus | Learn More

Instructors: Pamela Newton
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWF 1.00-3.15
Distributional Requirements: Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Online Course. Big cities present a unique set of opportunities and challenges. They are hubs of art and culture, media and entertainment, business and finance, and food. They serve as canvases for architects and urban planners with visions for the future. They represent the greatest potential for diverse populations to intersect and thrive. At the same time, cities are often sites of injustice, economic inequality, violence, and social division. Cities constantly challenge us to forge communities on a large scale and to learn how to live harmoniously with each other. 

In this course, we will explore city life through reading and writing about cities in several non-fiction modes. Major assignments will include a literary personal essay, a reported journalistic feature (which can be a profile), a film review about a city film, and a policy memo/proposal about a change to city infrastructure. We will supplement our course readings in these four genres with short readings in other genres, as well as with other kinds of “texts” (images, films, recorded talks). We will also look for opportunities to use New Haven, the city around us, as a source and a test case for our ideas. Through our study and practice of non-fiction writing for a range of audiences, we will seek to join an ongoing (written) conversation about the past, present, and future of the modern city. Prerequisite: College students- ENGL 114, 120, or other intro WR course; Pre-college students- College-level writing class or completed AP English with a score of 4 or 5. Enrollment limited to 12 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.

Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

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.

Film, Video, and American History

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.

Linear Algebra with Applications

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.

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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.

Urban Education & Housing Policy

ANTH S324E (CRN: 30108) | Syllabus | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course cancelled. Online Course. Blends urban history with educational and housing policy to explore how spatial relationships have shaped opportunity since the groundbreaking supreme court decision, Brown V. Board of Education. Investigates a range of historical, legal, and contemporary issues relevant to both the segregation and desegregation of American cities and their public schools in the twentieth century. Uses Atlanta, GA as a case study in how race, cities, schools and space have been differently understood in the South as compared to the North, and to Atlanta as compared to other “Deep South” cities.  Enrollment limited to 25 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.

The Anthropology of Possible Worlds

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.

Global Health Ethnography

ANTH S462 (CRN: 30052) | Syllabus | Learn More

Instructors: Marcia Inhorn
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 6.00-9.15p
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course closed to further enrollment. In-person Course. Study of anthropological ethnographies on serious health problems facing populations in resource-poor societies. Poverty and structural violence; struggles with infectious disease; the health of women and children; human rights and medical humanitarianism. Focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Middle East. Enrollment limited to 16 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.

Human Osteology

ANTH S464 (CRN: 30053) | Syllabus | Learn More

Instructors: Eric Sargis
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Science, Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course closed to further enrollment. In-person Course. A lecture and laboratory course focusing on the characteristics of the human skeleton and its use in studies of functional morphology, paleodemography, and paleopathology. Laboratories familiarize students with skeletal parts; lectures focus on the nature of bone tissue, its biomechanical modification, sexing, aging, and interpretation of lesions. Enrollment limited to 23 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.

Climate Change, Societal Collapse and Resilience

ANTH S473E (CRN: 30117) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course Cancelled. Online Course. The coincidence of societal collapses throughout history with decadal and century-scale abrupt climate change events. Challenges to anthropological and historical paradigms of cultural adaptation and resilience. Examination of archaeological and historical records and high-resolution sets of paleoclimate proxies. Enrollment limited to 22 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.

Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

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.

Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

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.

Multivariable Calculus for Engineers

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.

Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations with Applications

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.

Human Osteology

ARCG S464 (CRN: 30054) | Syllabus | Learn More

Instructors: Eric Sargis
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Science, Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course closed to further enrollment. In-person Course. A lecture and laboratory course focusing on the characteristics of the human skeleton and its use in studies of functional morphology, paleodemography, and paleopathology. Laboratories familiarize students with skeletal parts; lectures focus on the nature of bone tissue, its biomechanical modification, sexing, aging, and interpretation of lesions. Enrollment limited to 23 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.

Climate Change, Societal Collapse and Resilience

ARCG S473E (CRN: 30118) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course Cancelled. Online Course. The coincidence of societal collapses throughout history with decadal and century-scale abrupt climate change events. Challenges to anthropological and historical paradigms of cultural adaptation and resilience. Examination of archaeological and historical records and high-resolution sets of paleoclimate proxies. Enrollment limited to 22 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.

Architecture and Modernity

ARCH S326 (CRN: 30172) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

In-person Course. What is modernism?  What is modernity?  What does it mean to call something “modern?”  How has the field of architecture defined its relationship to the modern, as such?  How have architects articulated this idea in their buildings and writings?  How have different cultures and countries employed and engaged with the concept of modernity?  This course will address these and other, related questions through the exploration of a range of buildings, artworks, texts, and intellectual movements, emphasizing the transmission, translation, reception, and transformation of modernist approaches to architecture and urbanism, from their roots in the 19th century to their continued dissemination on the global stage today.  Key themes will include: the role of technology and scientific development in the evolution of architectural character; the architectural response to industrialization and urbanization; the emergence and development of novel building types; the translation and transformation of regionally specific strains of modernism; and the shifting dialogue over the course of the last century between architecture and the other arts, including various forms of new media. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.

Visual Thinking

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.

Basic Drawing

ART S115 (CRN: 30063) | Syllabus | Learn More

Instructors: Cameron Barker
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

Course closed to further enrollment. 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. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.

Introduction to Digital Photography

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.