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.
FREN S140 (CRN: 30204) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Matuku Ngame, Soumia Koundi
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S154 (CRN: 30268) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Ramla Bedoui
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: MW 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S164 (CRN: 30269) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Constance Sherak
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: MW 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
FREN S304 (CRN: 30285) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.00
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.
FREN S369 (CRN: 30273) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Richard Riddick
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.00
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.
GLBL S211 (CRN: 30284) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jasmina Besirevic Regan
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-12.00
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 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.
GLBL S275 (CRN: 30225) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Katherine Ingram
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Introduction to major approaches and central topics in the field of international security, with primary focus on the principal man-made threats to human security: the use of violence among and within states, both by state and non-state actors. Approaches to International Security is a course dedicated to understanding (1) why states, groups, and people go to war, (2) how conflicts can be avoided, (3) emerging trends in world conflicts. The course discusses major theories of war and relates those theories to historical examples and current conflicts across the world. Enrollment limited to 24 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
GLBL S361 (CRN: 30328) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Wyrtzen
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-12.00
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 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.
GMAN S130 (CRN: 30201) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Theresa Schenker
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
GMAN S140 (CRN: 30202) | Learn More
Instructors: Lieselotte Sippel
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-1.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
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.
GMAN S190 (CRN: 30212) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Paul North
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. The nature, history, and possible meanings of dream experience, with reference to Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. Works from film and literature about dreams and dreaming, as well as major texts in dream theory. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
GMAN S999E (CRN: 30150) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Theresa Schenker
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
HIST S108E (CRN: 30337) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Stephen Pitti
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar explores the American West from the sixteenth century to the present, attending to how colonial and national projects have shaped the region, how borders have been understood and policed, how Asian American and Latinx communities have remade rural and urban areas, how activists have driven and responded to contemporary debates, how musicians and visual artists have imagined regional identities, and more. In addition to reading published accounts, participants explore unique archival collections related to the American West at Yale. Enrollment limited to 18 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
HIST S174J (CRN: 30344) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Deborah Streahle
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course explores the material culture of American medicine. From instruments like thermometers and scalpels to imaging tools like X-rays and MRIs to everyday aids like glasses, prosthetics and fitness tracking apps—technology suffuses medicine today. In this course, we will analyze particular technologies as both physical and cultural objects in historical context. In addition to investigating the definition of medical technology, we will also consider a range of themes and questions, among them: why do some technologies succeed and others fail? What is the relationship between medical technology and power? How do race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the creation and use of medical technology? We will pay particular attention to the themes of expertise, authority, and identity. In addition to reading primary and secondary sources, we will work closely with materials from the Medical Historical Library. Students can expect to emerge from the course prepared to analyze medical technologies and place them in historical context in American medicine. The course will culminate in a student-run exhibition of medical technologies. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
HIST S187 (CRN: 30039) | 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.
HIST S236 (CRN: 30329) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Jonathan Wyrtzen
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-12.00
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 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.
HIST S268E (CRN: 30264) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Elli Stern
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This seminar explores the history of right-wing political thought from the late eighteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the role played by religious and pagan traditions. This course seeks to answer the questions: what constitutes the right? What are the central principles and values of those groups associated with this designation? And what are the defining features of what is commonly referred to as the “global right?” It will do so by examining primary tracts written by theologians, political philosophers, and social theorists as well as secondary literature written by scholars interrogating various movements and ideologies associated with the Right in America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Though touching on specific national political parties, institutions, and think tanks, its focus will be on mapping the intellectual similarities and differences between various right-wing ideologies. The “Right” emerged alongside its counterpoint, the "left," as early as 1692 to describe the congregation patterns surrounding the French Monarch, but it was not until the Revolution of 1789 when it gained its current political meaning. As the French Chamber of Deputies debated the rights of man and royal veto powers it was suggested that opponents to these measures sit du côté droit, while supporters place themselves du côté gauche. The division, many complained, was too absolute and left no room for nuance or political idiosyncrasies. Yet the arrangement held, the terms stuck, and by mid-century the right had begun to be a catchall for a host of political groups, including conservatives, traditionalists, authoritarians, royalists, nationalists and papists. By the twentieth century the term would be stretched to include movements ranging from Fascism to Populism and would be used to describe the political position of political parties in the Middle East and Asia. Though primarily associated with European and parliamentary politics, increasingly the designation of the right has been applied to Evangelical and Judeo-Christian groups in the United States. (The HIST cross-listing counts as a history "J" departmental seminar). 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
HIST S299 (CRN: 30281) | Learn More
Instructors: Jasmina Besirevic Regan
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 10.00-12.00
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.
HIST S402 (CRN: 30318) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Joseph Manning
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MWF 9.00-11.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. The history and culture of the ancient world between the rise of Macedonian imperialism in the fourth century B.C.E. and the annexation of Egypt by Augustus in 30 B.C.E. Particular attention to Alexander, one of the most important figures in world history, and to the definition of "Hellenism." 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
HSAR S223 (CRN: 30216) | Learn More
Instructors: Mitchell Herrmann
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. This course surveys the major global modern art movements from 1945 to the present. Topics include abstraction, pop art, minimalism, video installations, performance, conceptualism, land art, appropriation, and institutional critique. The works of prominent artists will be examined within their broader historical, political, and social contexts. Emphasis is placed upon the intersections between artistic practice and issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Students will be introduced to various methodologies employed by art historians, particularly close visual analysis. Seminar discussions make extensive use of the collections in the Yale University Art Gallery and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
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