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.
FILM S205 (CRN: 30254) | Learn More
Instructors: Kurtis Hanlon
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 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. This course explores the art forms of manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese animation), examining their unique media characteristics and intermedial connections. Students view and analyze manga and anime, not merely as stories but as narratives shaped by specific visual languages and technological mediation. Major course units incorporate themes of "play," examining how narrative content and media-specific conventions invite interaction and reflection. The course is organized into three thematic units: Adaptation – Playing with the past; Who am I? – Playing with identity; War Games – Playing with the future. Enrollment limited to 35 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
FILM S208E (CRN: 30149) | Learn More
Instructors: Greg Johnson
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 7.00-8.45p
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. An examination of the key events and ideas that shape the modern motion picture business from financial, institutional, and historical standpoints. Topics include ways that the business has evolved in response to changes in technology, distribution, and competition; how the business dictates what ends up on screen; and relationships among studios, actors, agents, independent filmmakers, distributors, and the viewing audience. Industry practitioners discuss special topics. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
FILM S247 (CRN: 30037) | 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. This course will take a hard, imaginative, speculative, and poetic look at U.S. history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the lens of film and video. In a time where we are awash with moving images in our environments on a daily, if not minute-by-minute basis, this course will be a space to meditate upon the sights, sounds, and texts around us. We will interrogate how we have been trained to read a moving image. We will place the image historically, aesthetically, politically. We will learn how to see history as a series of discontinuities, yet with unconscious repetitions, thematic overlaps, and eternal returns — not simply as a single thread of greatest hits and milestones moments. Topics will include: Empire, Language, Love (viz. the Screwball Comedy), Class, War and Empire, Politics, Communism, Ideology, Youth, Revolt, Postmodernity, the Network, and Memory. Periods and events covered include: The Black Freedom Struggle, The Jazz Age, the Great Depression, World War II, the Long 1960s, the U.S. failure in Vietnam, the Dot Com Boom and Silicon Valley, and contemporary activist/revolutionary movements. We will not consider the U.S. in isolation: films and discussions will inevitably take us to Latin America, to France, to Senegal, to Iran, and to the Soviet Union. We will have mandatory Monday night screenings as well; these will include moving-image work by Julie Dash, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Tashlin, Douglas Sirk, Barbara Loden, Jane Schoenbrun, Anthony Banua-Simon, Kevin Jerome Everson, Don Hertzfeldt, Vincente Minnelli, Chuck Jones, Michelangelo Antonioni, Abbas Kiarostami, Frédéric Da, Spike Lee, Walt Disney, Warren Beatty, Brian De Palma, Richard Lester, and Eric André, among a host of others. This course seeks to expand students' knowledge of the history of film, of U.S. culture, and the society in which they exist. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
FILM S268E (CRN: 30138) | 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 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
FILM S350E (CRN: 30120) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Brian Price
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 course will provide a rigorous examination of the fundamentals of the screenwriting craft, including story, structure, character, dialogue, and formatting. Through lectures, discussions, readings, screenings, and weekly writing exercises, students will learn what goes into a professional screenplay as they develop stories, outlines, character bios, and pages of a feature-length screenplay idea and then pitch, outline, and write a complete original short screenplay. We will focus on plot construction, character development, creating "cinematic" dialogue, conflict, subtext, and visual storytelling. Assignments and pages will be read aloud and critiqued. Enrollment limited to 14 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
FILM S374E (CRN: 30324) | Learn More
Instructors: Xueli Wang
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. The Hong Kong New Wave (1980s-2000s) was an intensely creative period of film and cultural production whose influence continues to reverberate through the world today. This course will survey key figures, works, trends, and contexts of the Hong Kong New Wave movement, beginning with proto-New Wave developments in the 1960s and 70s and ending with its afterlives in recent Hollywood productions. Sessions will be structured around ten films by directors including Wong Kar-Wai, Tsui Hark, Patrick Tam, Tang Shu Shuen, Angie Chen, Stanley Kwan, and Ann Hui. We will examine their works formally, through shot-by-shot analysis, as well as in relation to broader cultural and political developments, such as the 1967 anti-colonial riots, the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, the 1997 handover, the formation of new ciné-clubs and film magazines, the rise of television and piracy, and recent pro-democracy movements. We will also consider pertinent questions of genre, stardom, reception and fandom, history and memory, gender and sexuality, protest and dissent, and what constitutes “Hong Kongness” in relation to postcoloniality, globalization, and nationalism. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
FREN S130 (CRN: 30203) | 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 S140 (CRN: 30204) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
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) | Learn More
Instructors: R Howard Bloch
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 S999E (CRN: 30121) | Learn More
Instructors: Rachel Watson
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-12.00
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to college students only
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) | 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 S313E (CRN: 30326) | Learn More
Instructors: Jessica Faieta
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. This course explores the role and functioning of the United Nations at the country level from the perspective of the three mandates or pillars of the UN Charter: Peace and Security, Development, and Human Rights. The course will touch on the structure and financing of the Organization at the global and country levels. Students will review key documents and conventions from which the different mandates of the UN emanate and look at the partnership with other actors such as humanitarian NGOs. This course is less about the UN as a multilateral forum of member states that take political decisions at the global level --although we will touch on this, and more about the actual results and influence in the countries in which the United Nations operates. This course will be useful for students who would be interested in pursuing international careers with the different entities of the United Nations or would like to understand better how the UN and the System of organizations function in practice. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
GLBL S343E (CRN: 30122) | Learn More
Instructors: Asha Rangappa
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-10.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. This course explores the evolution of information warfare as a national security threat to the United States. Beginning with the KGB’s use of “active measures” during the Cold War, the course looks at how propaganda and disinformation campaigns became central to the Putin regime and how social media has facilitated their expansion and impact. Using Russia’s efforts in the 2016 election as an example, students will examine how the First Amendment places limitations on the U.S.’s ability to counter such operations in the United States and explore how strengthening critical thinking and American social capital might be effective prophylactics against these efforts. Enrollment limited to 18 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
GLBL S361 (CRN: 30328) | 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) | 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.
