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.
TDPS S3025 (CRN: 30168) | Learn More
Instructors: Elise Morrison
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Development of skills in public speaking and in critical analysis of public discourse. Key aspects of rhetoric and cultural communication; techniques for formulating and organizing persuasive arguments, engaging with an audience, and using the voice and body effectively. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480.
WGSS S2263 (CRN: 30170) | Learn More
Instructors: Maria Trumpler
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
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 S3359 (CRN: 30260) | Learn More
Instructors: Tasha Hawthorne
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
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.
AFAM S3372 (CRN: 30208) | Learn More
Instructors: Nana Adusei-Poku
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
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. 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.
AFST S3350 (CRN: 30199) | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Smith
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.
AMST S1021 (CRN: 30197) | Learn More
Instructors: Charles Musser
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 6.00-8.30p
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
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 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. 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) | 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 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
AMTH S2220 (CRN: 30212) | Learn More
Instructors: Surya Raghavendran
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
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) | Learn More
Instructors: Meghan Anderson
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
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.
ANTH S2255 (CRN: 30236) | Learn More
Instructors: Eda Pepi
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar plunges into the unruly life of power: how it inhabits laws and states, moves through gendered and racialized bodies, and conceals itself in the seeming neutrality of words. What makes a rule feel legitimate? Political & Legal Anthropology asks what it means to live under rules we did not write and what happens when people decide to rewrite them. What does it mean to be governed, to obey, to resist, to persuade, to endure? When does order become coercion, or violence pass as justice? Ethnographies of political emergency, prisons, war, counterterrorism, bureaucracy, and secrecy reveal what “law” names when it lives in gesture, silence, confession, or refusal. Across worlds—colonial and postcolonial, democratic and authoritarian, across the Global South and North—societies create and contest authority as law and politics spill beyond the state, where taboos, norms, and desires unsettle the old faiths in freedom and civility. Reading canonical and contemporary works side by side, we explore how legality becomes aesthetic, how emotions become rights, how evidence becomes story, and how dissent takes shape as both art and argument. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
ANTH S3245 (CRN: 30026) | Learn More
Instructors: Riché Barnes
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
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. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
ANTH S3809 (CRN: 30027) | Learn More
Instructors: Paul Kockelman
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course explores the relationships between language, culture, and cognition to investigate what 'meaning' is and why it matters. Students will explore how linguistic structures relate to language use and understanding as well as how political, ethnic, economic, gender, and cultural differences impact language use within and across populations. Course readings include recent and classic works by anthropologists, linguists, psychologists, and philosophers. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480.
ANTH S4564 (CRN: 30028) | 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
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. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
APHY S1000 (CRN: 30029) | Learn More
Instructors: Daniel Prober
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TWTh 9.30-11.45
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. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
APHY S1000 (CRN: 30030) | Learn More
Instructors: Daniel Prober
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TWTh 9.30-11.45
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. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
APHY S1510 (CRN: 30192) | Learn More
Instructors: Mitchell Smooke
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TWThF 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 1150 or completed AP BC Calculus with a score of a 4 or 5. Not after MATH 2250 or 2260. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
APHY S1940 (CRN: 30193) | Learn More
Instructors: Mitchell Smooke
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TWThF 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 1510 or MATH 1200 or equivalent, and knowledge of matrix-based operations. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.
ARCG S4564 (CRN: 30180) | 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
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. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
ART S1514 (CRN: 30031) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
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.
