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.
HSAR S3288 (CRN: 30202) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 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.
HSAR S4372 (CRN: 30092) | Learn More
Instructors: Nana Adusei-Poku
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
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.
HSAR S4429 (CRN: 30241) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 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.
HSHM S4280 (CRN: 30093) | Learn More
Instructors: Deborah Streahle
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
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. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
HUMS S2130 (CRN: 30191) | Learn More
Instructors: Eleanor Martin
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
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. From Percy Jackson to Botticelli's Birth of Venus, modern culture is saturated with references to classical myths. In this course, we will study these stories in their original contexts, as told by the ancient Greeks and Romans. We will read literary versions of many of the most important myths, including in drama and epic, examine representations of these myths in material culture, and explore the cultural functions and significance of both texts and objects. As we do so, we will also chart the development of these myths over time, from antiquity to today. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
HUMS S2140 (CRN: 30203) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 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.
HUMS S2210 (CRN: 30094) | Learn More
Instructors: Paul North
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. 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 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
HUMS S2680 (CRN: 30242) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 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.
HUMS S2730 (CRN: 30278) | Learn More
Instructors: Marijeta Bozovic
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-12.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Internet cultures have transformed our world over the past several decades, as human beings seemingly overnight learned to depend on computer networks for various kinds of work, military operations, pursuits of knowledge, religion, political organization, searches for love and community, illegal activities, and infinite varieties of play. The very size of this “cultural production” defies understanding and seems to defy study. This course serves as an introduction to interdisciplinary but humanities-centered approaches to Internet studies. Our seminar tackles a gargantuan open topic through three lenses: histories, network studies, and cultural studies. We will study and discuss ideas that stem from fields as diverse as media studies, digital humanities, economics, linguistic anthropology, history of science, and statistics. The course will highlight the possibilities and limitations of digital tools and encourage critical thinking about the networks that surround us and mediate our cultural experiences—and which the majority of us use with little understanding of how search tools, categorization systems, citation counts, and more shape and limit our knowledge. 1 Credit. Session B: June 29 – July 31. Tuition: $5480.
HUMS S3411 (CRN: 30095) | Learn More
Instructors: Blake Trimble
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
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. What does it mean for a life to go well? What would it look like for a life to be lived well? In short, what shape would a life worth living take? We will explore these questions through engagement with the visions of seven modern figures and foundation texts that influenced them: Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Tanakh, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Buddhist scriptures, Mohandas Gandhi and the Bhagavad Gita, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Bible, Robin Wall Kimmerer and North American Indigenous wisdom, A. Helwa and the Quran, and Oscar Wilde and expressive individualism. The course will also feature visits from contemporary individuals who understand their lives to be shaped by the figures and traditions in question. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Tuition: $5480.
IDRS S3000 (CRN: 30096) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 25 - June 26, 2026
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Must be taken Pass/Fail. Independent Research in the Summer (IDRS S3000) consists of special projects initiated and arranged by the student in an area of academic interest under the mentorship and supervision of a Yale faculty adviser and with the approval of the relevant Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS). In general, IDRS S300 enables the student to study material not otherwise offered by the department. The course may be used for research, design or other projects, or directed reading, but in all cases, a term paper, a written report on the research project, or an equivalent final assessment as determined by the faculty adviser and the DUS is required. The student is expected to meet regularly with their faculty adviser and spend approximately 35 hours a week on their research for the duration of the five-week session. Students may receive academic credit only if they are not being paid for their research, although they may work for credit in one five-week session and for pay in the other. Upon completion of the course, the faculty adviser must submit to the Yale Summer Session Registrar a substantive report, which describes the nature of the independent research and evaluates the student’s performance in it. The report must indicate the mark of Pass or Fail. These reports should be shared with the student and the DUS and, for Yale College students, kept in the office of the student’s residential college dean. For Yale College students, IDRS S300 may count toward a major’s requirements only with the approval of their DUS. IDRS S300 does not typically qualify as an in-person course for students who require an in-person course to fulfill their visa requirements. Admission to IDRS S300 is by application only. Further information about the application requirements can be found at https://summer.yale.edu/academics/independent-research-summer. Students are expected to work well in advance to prepare their project description and other application materials and secure the required approvals, all of which must be submitted to summer.session@yale.edu by no later than the relevant application deadline. May be repeated for credit so long as the Yale College limits on independent studies are not exceeded. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Session B: June 29 – July 31. The course is offered both in-person and online. Tuition: $5480. (Online course includes an additional $85 Technology Fee).
IDRS S3000 (CRN: 30097) | 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
Must be taken Pass/Fail. Independent Research in the Summer (IDRS S3000) consists of special projects initiated and arranged by the student in an area of academic interest under the mentorship and supervision of a Yale faculty adviser and with the approval of the relevant Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS). In general, IDRS S300 enables the student to study material not otherwise offered by the department. The course may be used for research, design or other projects, or directed reading, but in all cases, a term paper, a written report on the research project, or an equivalent final assessment as determined by the faculty adviser and the DUS is required. The student is expected to meet regularly with their faculty adviser and spend approximately 35 hours a week on their research for the duration of the five-week session. Students may receive academic credit only if they are not being paid for their research, although they may work for credit in one five-week session and for pay in the other. Upon completion of the course, the faculty adviser must submit to the Yale Summer Session Registrar a substantive report, which describes the nature of the independent research and evaluates the student’s performance in it. The report must indicate the mark of Pass or Fail. These reports should be shared with the student and the DUS and, for Yale College students, kept in the office of the student’s residential college dean. For Yale College students, IDRS S300 may count toward a major’s requirements only with the approval of their DUS. IDRS S300 does not typically qualify as an in-person course for students who require an in-person course to fulfill their visa requirements. Admission to IDRS S300 is by application only. Further information about the application requirements can be found at https://summer.yale.edu/academics/independent-research-summer. Students are expected to work well in advance to prepare their project description and other application materials and secure the required approvals, all of which must be submitted to summer.session@yale.edu by no later than the relevant application deadline. May be repeated for credit so long as the Yale College limits on independent studies are not exceeded. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Session B: June 29 – July 31. The course is offered both in-person and online. Tuition: $5480. (Online course includes an additional $85 Technology Fee).
IDRS S3000 (CRN: 30098) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
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
Must be taken Pass/Fail. Independent Research in the Summer (IDRS S3000) consists of special projects initiated and arranged by the student in an area of academic interest under the mentorship and supervision of a Yale faculty adviser and with the approval of the relevant Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS). In general, IDRS S300 enables the student to study material not otherwise offered by the department. The course may be used for research, design or other projects, or directed reading, but in all cases, a term paper, a written report on the research project, or an equivalent final assessment as determined by the faculty adviser and the DUS is required. The student is expected to meet regularly with their faculty adviser and spend approximately 35 hours a week on their research for the duration of the five-week session. Students may receive academic credit only if they are not being paid for their research, although they may work for credit in one five-week session and for pay in the other. Upon completion of the course, the faculty adviser must submit to the Yale Summer Session Registrar a substantive report, which describes the nature of the independent research and evaluates the student’s performance in it. The report must indicate the mark of Pass or Fail. These reports should be shared with the student and the DUS and, for Yale College students, kept in the office of the student’s residential college dean. For Yale College students, IDRS S300 may count toward a major’s requirements only with the approval of their DUS. IDRS S300 does not typically qualify as an in-person course for students who require an in-person course to fulfill their visa requirements. Admission to IDRS S300 is by application only. Further information about the application requirements can be found at https://summer.yale.edu/academics/independent-research-summer. Students are expected to work well in advance to prepare their project description and other application materials and secure the required approvals, all of which must be submitted to summer.session@yale.edu by no later than the relevant application deadline. May be repeated for credit so long as the Yale College limits on independent studies are not exceeded. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Session B: June 29 – July 31. The course is offered both in-person and online. Tuition: $5480. (Online course includes an additional $85 Technology Fee).
IDRS S3000 (CRN: 30099) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 29 - July 31, 2026
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Must be taken Pass/Fail. Independent Research in the Summer (IDRS S3000) consists of special projects initiated and arranged by the student in an area of academic interest under the mentorship and supervision of a Yale faculty adviser and with the approval of the relevant Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS). In general, IDRS S300 enables the student to study material not otherwise offered by the department. The course may be used for research, design or other projects, or directed reading, but in all cases, a term paper, a written report on the research project, or an equivalent final assessment as determined by the faculty adviser and the DUS is required. The student is expected to meet regularly with their faculty adviser and spend approximately 35 hours a week on their research for the duration of the five-week session. Students may receive academic credit only if they are not being paid for their research, although they may work for credit in one five-week session and for pay in the other. Upon completion of the course, the faculty adviser must submit to the Yale Summer Session Registrar a substantive report, which describes the nature of the independent research and evaluates the student’s performance in it. The report must indicate the mark of Pass or Fail. These reports should be shared with the student and the DUS and, for Yale College students, kept in the office of the student’s residential college dean. For Yale College students, IDRS S300 may count toward a major’s requirements only with the approval of their DUS. IDRS S300 does not typically qualify as an in-person course for students who require an in-person course to fulfill their visa requirements. Admission to IDRS S300 is by application only. Further information about the application requirements can be found at https://summer.yale.edu/academics/independent-research-summer. Students are expected to work well in advance to prepare their project description and other application materials and secure the required approvals, all of which must be submitted to summer.session@yale.edu by no later than the relevant application deadline. May be repeated for credit so long as the Yale College limits on independent studies are not exceeded. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 25 – June 26. Session B: June 29 – July 31. The course is offered both in-person and online. Tuition: $5480. (Online course includes an additional $85 Technology Fee).
ITAL S1100 (CRN: 30100) | Learn More
Instructors: Sergio De Iudicibus
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.00
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 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.
ITAL S1200 (CRN: 30101) | Learn More
Instructors: Ann Taylor
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.00
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 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.
ITAL S1300 (CRN: 30102) | Learn More
Instructors: Deborah Pellegrino
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.00
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 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.
ITAL S1400 (CRN: 30103) | Learn More
Instructors: Roberto Ferrini
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: M-F 9.00-12.00
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 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.
ITAL S4152 (CRN: 30104) | Learn More
Instructors: Millicent Marcus
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 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.
ITAL S4235 (CRN: 30105) | Learn More
Instructors: Simona Lorenzini
Dates: Learn more on the Yale Study Abroad program page
Course Mode: Study Abroad
Meeting Times: N/A
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 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.
