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.
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.
ART S144 (CRN: 30279) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Sahraa Karimi
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-4.00
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.
ART S167 (CRN: 30027) | Learn More
Instructors: Mianwei Wang
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Interactive design explored through the development of projects that are based online. Concepts of prompt, feedback, and variable conditions; Web-specific design issues such as navigation and pacing, as well as design for variable sizes and devices; best practices in code craft and design. The Web as a social ecosystem in which time and performance play important roles. Instruction in HTML, CSS, and some Javascript. No prior programming experience required. 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 A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
BIOL S105 (CRN: 30029) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Thomas Loreng, Amaleah Hartman
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: M-F 10.30-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Introduction to the study of life at the molecular level and to cell biology and membrane physiology. Topics include the three-dimensional structures and function of large biological molecules, the human genome, the design of antiviral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, organization and functional properties of biological membranes, membrane physiology and signaling, rough endoplasmic reticulum and synthesis of membrane/secretory membrane proteins, endocytosis, the cytoskeleton, and cell division. Covers the material of BIOL 101 and 102, the first half of the yearlong introductory biology sequence. Followed in the summer by BIOL S106. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
BIOL S106 (CRN: 30067) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Amaleah Hartman, Thomas Near
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: M-F 10.30-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. Introduction to genes, genetics, developmental biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and the history of life. How genes control development and disease; Mendel's rules; examples of organ physiology; evolutionary transitions and natural selection; adaptation at genic, chromosomal, cellular, organismal, and supra-organismal levels; distributional and social consequences of particular suites of organismal adaptations. Covers the material of BIOL 103 and 104, the second half of the yearlong introductory biology sequence. Prerequisite: BIOL 101 and 102, or BIOL S105. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
BIOL S300 (CRN: 30045) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Robert Collins
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. An introduction to the biochemistry of animals, plants, and microorganisms, emphasizing the relations of chemical principles and structure to the evolution and regulation of living systems. Prerequisite: BIOL 101 or BIOL 105 and one term of organic chemistry. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
BRST 165 (CRN: 30600) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
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Meeting Times: TTh 2.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Debates around Britain’s colonial legacies and decolonization of Britain’s institutions have been at the forefront of public consciousness. Through a series of trips to London’s museums, this course explores the imperial and colonial foundations of the city’s museum collections and their legacies. Students discover how London’s museums constituted the world and Britain’s place within it and constructed and reaffirmed national, imperial, and colonial identities, and continue to do so. Students also examine the various ways museums are attempting to address their colonial legacies through debates around repatriation, restitution, and decolonization, as well as how museums are trying to widen their publics and communities of knowledge in order to disrupt longstanding narratives of power and dominance.
BRST 170 (CRN: 30601) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
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Meeting Times: MTh 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
The Irish in London have a long and complicated history, taking in colonization, revolution, assimilation, and transformation. “Ways of Being Irish in London” is a course that analyses Ireland's often remarkable contribution to the artistic and cultural world of contemporary London. It brings to life the diversity and strangeness of the Irish migrant experience, and how this has been expressed through film, music, literature, and theatre. The course draws on readings, both close and wide, from poetry, novel writing, BBC archival broadcasts, oral testimony, popular music, and much more, introducing a cavalcade of writers, singers, and provocateurs, who often shocked Britain but, to their own surprise, also made it their home. The course takes a fundamental interest in our identities and our concept of home, and how this can be altered and disrupted through change, both social and political.
BRST 217 (CRN: 30602) | Learn More
Instructors: Charles Philip
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Meeting Times: TW 10.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
This course looks at how post WW2 migration–primarily from the Caribbean–has transformed Britain into the most multiracial and multicultural country in Europe. The lens we primarily look through is literature, but we also factor in questions of history (both long-term and contemporary) and examine the socio-political ramifications of Britain's evolution into a country that is still struggling to come to terms with its self-evident cultural plurality. In addition, we examining the many ways in which the literary representations of Irish and Jewish experiences of migration and integration into British society run parallel to those of Caribbean and African migrants.
BRST 295 (CRN: 30603) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Elihu Rubin
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Meeting Times: MW 2.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In 1964, UCL sociologist Ruth Glass used the term “gentrification” to describe the dynamics of neighborhood change in London. The same tensions around investment, newcomers, “authentic” culture, affordability, displacement, and sense-of-place endure in our efforts to understand, appreciate, and equitably plan for place-based communities. London Neighborhoods is in part a field course with weekly visits to sites across London where we hone our skills of observation, learn how to break-down the perception of disorder and read the city as a latticework of patterns, and meet local “guides”—citizens, proprietors, professionals, activists, public officials—who introduce neighborhood strengths and challenges as we build up a vocabulary of urban concepts and consider the arts and politics of representing places, from the documentary film to the city planning document.
CENG S150E (CRN: 30140) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Michael Loewenberg
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWTh 6.30-8.00p
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. Mathematical modeling is not a scripted procedure. Models are constrained by physical principles, including conservation laws and experimental observations but this does not provide a closed description. There is a lot more art in mathematical modeling than is commonly acknowledged and improvisation plays a significant role. The artistic aspects are important and intellectually engaging because they often lead to a deeper understanding. This course provides a general introduction to engineering analysis and to chemical engineering principles. Material includes the derivation of governing equations from first principles and the analysis of these equations, including underlying assumptions, degrees of freedom, dimensional analysis, scaling arguments, and approximation techniques. The goal of this course is to obtain the necessary skills for improvising mathematical models for a broad range of problems that arise in engineering, science and everyday life. Students from all majors are encouraged to take this course. Prerequisite: student must have a knowledge of basic calculus. Enrollment limited to 25 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
CENG S300E (CRN: 30101) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Michael Loewenberg
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWTh 6.30-8.00p
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 120 or ENAS 151 or multivariable calculus. For college students and beyond. Enrollment limited to 25 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
CGSC S152E (CRN: 30158) | 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.
CHEM S101 (CRN: 30068) | Learn More
Instructors: Ruth Son
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MTWTh 9.30-11.15
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course explores the fundamentals of chemistry through real-world applications, beginning with the principles of atoms and molecules and examining how molecular structure determines their function. Topics range from materials, pharmaceuticals, art, and cooking to laundry detergents. This course aims to encourage students of all backgrounds and academic interests to become knowledgeable, scientifically literate thinkers who approach scientific topics critically and are committed to lifelong learning. This course is intended for non-science majors who have limited to no previous chemistry knowledge. The course is not open to students who have completed another chemistry course at Yale, nor does this course satisfy premedical chemistry requirements or requirements for the chemistry major. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
CHEM S134L (CRN: 30030) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Paul Cooper
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 12.30-4.30
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. Laboratory techniques required for qualitative and quantitative analysis, synthesis of inorganic compounds, and simple thermodynamic measurements. May be taken concurrently with CHEM S161 or subsequently. For college students and beyond. 1/2 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $2635.
CHEM S161 (CRN: 30031) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Paul Cooper
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: M-F 9.30-10.45, Th 11.00-11.30, MW 11.00-12.00
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning, Science
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. A comprehensive survey of modern descriptive, inorganic, and physical chemistry, intended for students with high school preparation in chemistry. Stoichiometry, atomic structure, chemical bonding, molecular structure, gas laws, properties of solutions. The general chemistry courses (CHEM S161/S165) with laboratories (CHEM S134L/S136L), meet departmental requirements for the major and are appropriate for students seeking to fulfill medical school requirements. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
CHEM S220 (CRN: 30032) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Christine DiMeglio
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 11.00-12.00, M-F 9.30-10.45
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. The fundamental principles of organic chemistry. Structure and bonding, acids and bases, chemical energetics, stereochemistry, properties, preparation and reactions of alkanes, alkene, alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, alkynes and infrared spectroscopy. The organic chemistry courses (CHEM S220/S221) with laboratories (CHEM S222/S223), satisfy departmental requirements for the major, and are appropriate for students seeking to fulfill medical school requirements. Prerequisite: CHEM 161, 165, 134L, and 136L. Enrollment limited to 36 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
CHEM S221 (CRN: 30071) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Parr
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 11.00-12.00, M-F 9.30-10.45
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
In-person Course. The fundamental principles of organic chemistry. Aldehydes and ketones, strategies in organic synthesis, carboxylic acid derivatives, carbonyl condensation reactions, sulfur and phosphorus compounds, bifunctional molecules, carbohydrates, organic nitrogen compounds, amino acids and proteins. Prerequisite: CHEM S220. The organic chemistry courses (CHEM S220/S221) with laboratories (CHEM S222/S223), satisfy departmental requirements for the major, and are appropriate for students seeking to fulfill medical school requirements. Enrollment limited to 36 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
CHEM S222L (CRN: 30033) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Christine DiMeglio
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
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. May be taken concurrently with CHEM S220 or subsequently. Prerequisite: CHEM 161, 165, 134L, and 136L. Enrollment limited to 24 students. For college students and beyond. 1/2 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $2635.
CHEM S223L (CRN: 30072) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Parr
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
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 222L. May be taken concurrently with CHEM S221 or subsequently. After two terms of college-level general chemistry lab, or the equivalent. Enrollment limited to 24 students. For college students and beyond. 1/2 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $2635.
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