Courses at Yale

Online Course. The study of policy problems with implications for justice or sustainability frames essential readings in policy theory and program design, policy analysis, implementation research, and program design and evaluation. Students gain insight on applying theories and principles of policy and program design to ‘real world’ problems by reading and discussing cases in environmental justice and sustainability and by the study of problems in justice or sustainability of their own choosing. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9. (View syllabus)

Course cancelled. Online Course. This course explores the purposes and effectiveness of diverse environmental laws including those that pertain to: climate change, energy, national security, food and agriculture, environmental justice, air and water pollution, hazardous wastes & sites, toxic commercial chemicals, and environmentally infectious diseases such as Covid-19 and malaria. Diverse types of law will be considered that apply to each of the challenges above. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B:  July 12 - August 13.

Online Course. Surveys key figures, movements, and trends in Sinophone cinema since 1980. Sessions will be structured around ten films, each an entry point into a broader topic, such as the Fifth and Sixth Generation directors; the Hong Kong New Wave; Taiwan New Cinema; martial arts film; commercial blockbuster; and independent documentary. Directors of interest include Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Ann Hui, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-Liang, Ou Ning, and Feng Xiaogang. We will examine their films formally, through shot-by-shot analysis, as well as in relation to major social, political, and economic developments in recent Chinese history. We will also consider pertinent questions of propaganda and censorship; aesthetics and politics; history and memory; transnational networks and audiences; and what constitutes "Chineseness" in a globalized world. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. A study of the interrelations among popular sport, cinema, television, radio, print, and social media. Explores topics of identity, commerce, and civics through contemporary texts (Hunger Games, Senna, Invictus), and introduces the history of sport in media culture. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. This course looks at American history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the lens of film and video. Students will learn to analyze fiction and nonfiction moving pictures in the context of social and cultural history. Emphasis will be placed on using films and videos as historical sources. Topics will include: The Great Migration, The Jazz Age, the Great Depression, World War II, Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, September 11th, and contemporary activist movements. Screenings will include feature films such as Within Our Gates, Sullivan’s Travels, Casablanca, Night of the Living Dead, and Selma. This course seeks to expand students' knowledge of the history of American film, culture, and society. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. This course will look at the screenplay as both a literary text and blue-print for production. Several classic screenplays will be analyzed. Students will then embark on pitching, outlining and writing their own scripts. We will intensively focus on character development, creating "cinematic" dialogue, plot construction, conflict, pacing, dramatic foreshadowing, the element of surprise, text and subtext and visual story-telling. Several classic and contemporary films will first be read and then screened for analysis and discussion. (Psycho, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Winter's Bone, The Devil Wears Prada, The Social Network). Students will learn professional screenplay format and write an 8-12 page screenplay that will be read aloud in class and critiqued. Enrollment limited to 15. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9. (View syllabus)

Course closed to further enrollment. Online Course. Intensive second course for second-year language students designed to develop students' proficiency in the four language skill areas. Introduction of more complex grammatical structures. Films and other authentic media accompany literary readings from throughout the francophone world, culminating with the reading of a longer novel and in-class presentation of student research projects. Conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: FREN 130 (Intermediate and Advanced French I) or equivalent proficiency. Enrollment limited to 15 students. 1.5 Credits. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Course cancelled. Online Course.A study of the great Gothic cathedrals of the High Middle Ages in France—Saint Denis, Notre Dame Paris, Chartres, Sainte Chapelle, Amiens, Reims--in the context of historical, literary, and philosophical works by Peter Abelard, Abbot Suger, Rutebeuf, Saint Bernard, Joinville, Thibaut de Champagne, Pseudo-Dionysius, Marie de France, James of Voragine, Guibert de Nogent, and the anonymous Song of Roland, fabliaux, and courtly lyric. Core consideration of gothic design (structure, sculpture, stained glass), urban and economic renewal, and intellectual, social, and religious life of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Conducted in English. Applicants choose FREN, HUMS, or LITR credit. Enrollment limited to 17 students. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Online Course. Students acquire skills for reading French-language texts of any difficulty with some fluency. Study of syntax and grammar; practice in close reading and translation of texts in different genres in the humanities. These courses do not have live online class meetings and will not appear on transcripts issued by the University. The course work is not self-paced as there are weekly assignment deadlines. Yale doctoral student tuition is funded by GSAS. Visiting student tuition: $850. Technology Fee: $85. Session A: June 7 - July 9. (View syllabus)