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.
MUSI S207 (CRN: 30081) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Nathaniel Adam
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 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. An introduction to music-theory analysis of commercial and popular song (with a focus on American and British music of the past 50 years, across multiple genres). Coursework involves study of harmony, voice leading and text setting, rhythm and meter, and form, with assigned reading, listening, musical transcription and arranging, and written/oral presentation of analysis. Prior knowledge of musical knowledge of key signatures, time signatures, and roman numeral analysis. Enrollment limited to 16 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
PHYS S166L (CRN: 30089) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Science
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Course canceled. In-person Course. A large variety of laboratory experiments, coordinated with the lecture course PHYS S181, and designed to illustrate the physical principles developed in the lectures. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1/2 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $2635.
PSYC S350E (CRN: 30166) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Fred Volkmar
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: TTh 10.00-11.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. Survey of current understandings and treatment of autism from infancy through adulthood. Topics include etiology, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and advocacy, and social neuroscience methods. Focus on ways in which research findings are integrated into diagnosis and treatment practices. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
PSYC S434E (CRN: 30168) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Melissa Ferguson
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MW 9.00-10.30
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. When and how do we change our minds? We are constantly learning information about other individuals, groups, objects, ideas, and so on, but this new information does not always influence what we think and how we feel. What determines when we update our beliefs and feelings? This course will review cutting-edge psychological science to answer this question, with special attention to social and cognitive research on how we change our minds about other individuals and groups. Prerequisite: Any Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 20 students. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
SOCY S151E (CRN: 30170) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Julia Adams
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWF 9.00-11.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. In this concentrated survey course, students explore the writings of the classical Western theorists of social and political life in modernity, as they address problems that still preoccupy us today. Attention to conceptual frameworks, historical contexts, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Classical theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Mill, Martineau, Tocqueville, Hegel, Marx, Weber, Du Bois, and Durkheim. Enrollment limited to 22 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
TDPS S238E (CRN: 30348) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course canceled. Online Course. In the 1960s, the designation "Asian American" emerged to encompass a diverse array of experiences, histories, languages, and cultures. This decade also marked the establishment of the first Asian American theater companies, which subsequently led to an increasing collection of plays authored by Asian American playwrights. This seminar will facilitate in-depth readings and discussions of works by fifteen contemporary playwrights whose heritage connects them to various regions across East, South, Southeast, and Western Asia. Notable figures include Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Aasif Mandvi, Qui Nguyen, Jiehae Park, and Sanaz Toossi, among others. Alongside employing various analytical methods for dramatic texts, we will explore the political, cultural, and historical contexts that influenced the consciousness of Asian American playwrights during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our aim is to gain a renewed understanding of what it means to be (and perform) Asian Americanness for both current and future generations. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
THST S393 (CRN: 30092) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Course canceled. 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. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
URBN S335E (CRN: 30220) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Pamela Newton
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: MWF 1.00-3.15
Distributional Requirements: Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Online Course. Big cities present a unique set of opportunities and challenges. They are hubs of art and culture, media and entertainment, business and finance, and food. They serve as canvases for architects and urban planners with visions for the future. They represent the greatest potential for diverse populations to intersect and thrive. At the same time, cities are often sites of injustice, economic inequality, violence, and social division. Cities constantly challenge us to forge communities on a large scale and to learn how to live harmoniously with each other.
In this course, we will explore city life through reading and writing about cities in several non-fiction modes. Major assignments will include a literary personal essay, a reported journalistic feature (which can be a profile), a film review about a city film, and a policy memo/proposal about a change to city infrastructure. We will supplement our course readings in these four genres with short readings in other genres, as well as with other kinds of “texts” (images, films, recorded talks). We will also look for opportunities to use New Haven, the city around us, as a source and a test case for our ideas. Through our study and practice of non-fiction writing for a range of audiences, we will seek to join an ongoing (written) conversation about the past, present, and future of the modern city. Prerequisite: College students- ENGL 114, 120, or other intro WR course; Pre-college students- College-level writing class or completed AP English with a score of 4 or 5. Enrollment limited to 12 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
AFAM S173 (CRN: 30335) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course cancelled. In-person Course. This summer seminar will explore significance of race, slavery, and abolitionism in American History during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course will also introduce students to archival methods for the study of history. Taught from a classroom in the Beinecke Library, each class meeting will begin with a discussion of historical writings upon a particular theme of this history. Then we will turn to an archival collection from one of Yale’s repositories that sheds light upon this theme. Students will learn to transcribe and analyze historical documents, and then to make meaning of the past from their investigations. Topics include slavery and slaveholding, the transatlantic slave trade, the continental slave trade, the abolitionist movement, the Black experience in northern cities, Yale University, and the afterlives of racial slavery as evident in material culture. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
AFST S325 (CRN: 30327) | 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.
AMST S220 (CRN: 30333) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course cancelled. In-person Course. Cumbia is one of the most transnational musics in the American continent currently representing a sonic renaissance. Varied cumbia sounds and dance styles are found in most countries across the Americas while sharing similar race and colonial genealogies. This class focuses on cumbia music and dance to explore that politics of race, gender, colonialism, and racial capitalism to consider the ways music reflects the cultural politics of a given moment. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
AMST S254 (CRN: 30340) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Minh Vu
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
Course closed to further enrollment. 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). Enrollment limited to 12 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
AMST S259E (CRN: 30338) | 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.
AMST S283 (CRN: 30336) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course cancelled. In-person Course. This summer seminar will explore significance of race, slavery, and abolitionism in American History during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course will also introduce students to archival methods for the study of history. Taught from a classroom in the Beinecke Library, each class meeting will begin with a discussion of historical writings upon a particular theme of this history. Then we will turn to an archival collection from one of Yale’s repositories that sheds light upon this theme. Students will learn to transcribe and analyze historical documents, and then to make meaning of the past from their investigations. Topics include slavery and slaveholding, the transatlantic slave trade, the continental slave trade, the abolitionist movement, the Black experience in northern cities, Yale University, and the afterlives of racial slavery as evident in material culture. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270.
AMST S365E (CRN: 30135) | Syllabus | 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.
AMST S483 (CRN: 30038) | 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.
AMTH S222E (CRN: 30252) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Surya Raghavendran
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: M-F 1.00-2.20
Distributional Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Eligibility: Open to college students only
Online Course. Matrix representation of linear equations. Gauss elimination. Vector spaces. Linear independence, basis, and dimension. Orthogonality, projection, least squares approximation; orthogonalization and orthogonal bases. Extension to function spaces. Determinants. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Diagonalization. Difference equations and matrix differential equations. Symmetric and Hermitian matrices. Orthogonal and unitary transformations; similarity transformations. Students who plan to continue with upper level math courses should instead consider MATH 225. After MATH 115 or completed AP BC Calculus with a score of a 4 or 5. May not be taken after MATH 225. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
ANTH S110 (CRN: 30051) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: Faith Macharia
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: TTh 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
In-person Course. Anthropological study of cosmology, tacit knowledge, and ways of knowing the world in specific social settings. Ways in which sociocultural specificity helps to explain human solutions to problems of cooperation and conflict, production and reproduction, expression, and belief. Introduction to anthropological ways of understanding cultural difference in approaches to sickness and healing, gender and sexuality, economics, religion, and communication. Enrollment limited to 30 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
ANTH S324E (CRN: 30108) | Syllabus | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session A, May 26 - June 27, 2025
Course Mode: Online
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: Social Sciences, Writing
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course cancelled. 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. Enrollment limited to 25 students. 1 Credit. Session A: May 26 – June 27. Tuition: $5270. Technology Fee: $85.
ANTH S412 (CRN: 30363) | Learn More
Instructors: N/A
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: N/A
Distributional Requirements: N/A
Eligibility: Open to pre-college and college students
Course canceled. In-person Course. Struggle is a transversal notion in contemporary ethnographies and political theory. Struggle is present in ontological debates, as well as in the everyday practices of people or social movements that suffer from injustice or actively struggle against it. In this course, we examine the different dimensions of struggle and what this means for ethnographic research. This course is designed to challenge perspectives, foster critical discussions, and engage students in real-world applications of anthropology, politics, and environmental studies. Enrollment limited to 18 students. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.
