Course List

Spanish for Reading

SPAN S9999 (CRN: 30166) | Learn More

Instructors: María Pilar Asensio-Manrique
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only

Online Course. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will offer an online, non-credit Spanish for Reading course to assist students in satisfying their degree requirements. Students will acquire skills for reading Spanish language texts of any difficulty with some fluency. Study of syntax and grammar; practice in close reading and translation of texts in different genres in the humanities and sciences. The course is self-paced but has daily or weekly deadlines for assignments. These courses do not have live online class meetings and will not appear on transcripts issued by the University. Grades will be available in Yale Hub one week after the conclusion of the course. Open to Yale doctoral and visiting graduate students. Non-Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Yale doctoral student Tuition and Technology Fee are funded by GSAS. Visiting students, Tuition: $885. Technology Fee: $85.

University Preparation Intl HS

SUMR S6100 (CRN: 30264) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

In-person Course. This program is for international high school students with strong English skills who want to prepare for undergraduate study at an American university. You will improve your overall abilities in both spoken and written English, as well as your understanding of U.S. academic culture. Enjoy the opportunity to visit a variety of American university campuses in the northeastern part of the United States. All students in the program will be housed together with other pre-college students attending Yale Summer Session. This is a full-time program. See the website for a sample daily schedule. No credit. Session B: June 29 - July 31. Tuition: $6780.

Intensive English Program

SUMR S6200 (CRN: 30265) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students

In-person Course. This is a full-time program designed for international college students who want to improve their academic English language skills among a dynamic, diverse group of students. This summer, develop the skills, fluency, and confidence you need to communicate effectively in English. You will improve your overall abilities in both spoken and written English, as well as your understanding of the cultural diversity in the U.S. See the website for a sample daily schedule. No credit. Session B: June 29 - July 31. Tuition: $5535.

Postgraduate Seminar

SUMR S6300 (CRN: 30266) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only

In-person Course. This is an intensive English course for international students who are attending or planning to attend graduate school in the U.S., or for mature or professional students who want to study English in a serious academic setting. The program is designed to prepare you for the rigors of graduate school and polish your academic writing and speaking skills. You will improve your overall abilities in both spoken and written English, as well as your understanding of U.S. academic culture. For college students and beyond. No credit. This is a full-time program. See the website for a sample daily schedule. Session B: June 29 - July 31. Tuition: $5535.

Business Seminar

SUMR S6400 (CRN: 30267) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only

In-person Course. This program is designed to prepare you for professional life or graduate business study and help you build the necessary skills to compete in the world of business. Develop the communication skills you need to be competitive in global business. Make international connections, gain cross-cultural understanding, and experience business case study analysis. The Business Seminar offers participants the tools to think critically about international business environments. It is a serious program that introduces students to the workload and content of an American MBA program. This is a full-time program. See the website for a sample daily schedule. For college students and beyond. No credit. Session B: June 29 - July 31. Tuition: $6780.

Law Seminar

SUMR S6500 (CRN: 30268) | Learn More

Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only

In-person Course. This is an intensive introduction to the American legal system designed to prepare you to enter law school in the U.S. or work in the field of law in an international context. Make international connections, learn about the American legal system, and the legal English it requires. This is a full-time program. See the website for a sample daily schedule. For college students and beyond. No credit. Session B: June 29 - July 31. Tuition: $6780.

Modern Drama in Literature and Art

TDPS S3001 (CRN: 30167) | 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.

Public Speaking

TDPS S3025 (CRN: 30168) | Learn More

Instructors: Elise Morrison
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
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.

Urban Education and Housing Policy

URBN S3319 (CRN: 30179) | Learn More

Instructors: Riché Barnes
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
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.

Women, Politics, and Policy

WGSS S2204 (CRN: 30223) | Learn More

Instructors: Andrea Aldrich
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWF 1.00-3.15
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 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480. Technology Fee: $85.

Asian American Affect: The Cultural Politics of Emotion

WGSS S2254 (CRN: 30172) | 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

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.

Political & Legal Anthropology

WGSS S2255 (CRN: 30169) | Learn More

Instructors: Eda Pepi
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
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.

Rye: Cultural History and Embodied Practice

WGSS S2263 (CRN: 30170) | 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.