Courses at Yale

Course closed to further enrollment. 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 20 students. 1 Credit. Technology fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9.  (View syllabus)

Online Course. Intensive second course for second-year language students. A content- and task-based course that helps students improve their oral and written linguistic skills and their cultural awareness through a variety of materials related to German literature, culture, history, and politics. Course materials include authentic readings, a feature film, and shorter video clips. Prerequisite: GMAN 130 (Intermediate German 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)

Online Course. Students acquire skills for reading German-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 B: July 12 - August 13.

Online Course. This course examines the history of the United States’ relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth (with sustained discussion on connections to the present day). We will examine inter-American relations through lenses such as culture, gender and sexuality, politics, economics, and diplomatic history. Topics include the Monroe Doctrine; the War of 1898; racial capitalism; US military interventions; the Panama Canal; the Guatemalan, Cuban, and Chilean Revolutions; and US-backed counterrevolution through coups, paramilitary warfare, and counterinsurgency training. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Online Course. The course will provide a survey of the intellectual history of the "Western Civilization" from its roots in ancient Greece and Rome through the 16th century. The course will specifically track the development of the ideas that defined, justified, and regulated the relationship of an individual both to their communities, either secular or spiritual, and the outsiders. Throughout the course, students will familiarize themselves with the ideas of "just war," state and politics, the role of education and philosophy in shaping the Western intellectual milestones such as the birth of Christianity, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9. (View syllabus)

Online Course. Introduction to the history of the Olympic Games from antiquity to the present. The mythology of athletic events in ancient Greece and the ritual, political, and social ramifications of the actual competitions. The revival of the modern Olympic movement in 1896, the political investment of the Greek state at the time, and specific games as they illustrate the convergence of athletic cultures and sociopolitical transformations in the twentieth century. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session B: July 12 - August 13. (View syllabus)

Course Cancelled. Online Course. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a tragic disconnect between the science of global health research and the communication of scientific findings to policymakers, the general public, and scientists in other fields. Global Health Across Audiences specifically addresses this concern by exploring the intersection of academic research and public health communication. Using contemporary global health issues, students learn key scientific principles of public health and epidemiological research and then discover how to translate these principles to various scientific, semi-scientific, and non-scientific audiences. It trains students on the methods and dynamics of communicating scientific findings using a variety of mediums and genres tailored for specific audiences, including narratives, op-eds, storytelling, interviews, online platforms, filmmaking, and others, to clearly and effectively communicate global health research. Enrollment limited to 17 students. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9.

Online Course. Explores the ways that classical antiquity has impacted the modern artistic and political imagination. Topics of discussion will include representations of the body, expressions of political authority, and debates about cultural patrimony across time, place, and medium; (mis)understandings of classical sculpture, including its supposed white surface, and their impact on ideas about race and morality; the invocation of Greco-Roman models of government from Revolutionary America to Nazi Germany; and the role of classical ideals in shaping modern-day arguments about cultural patrimony. Enrollment limited to 20 students. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9. (View syllabus)

Course Cancelled. Online Course. What does it mean to picture the self? This course will look at the long history of artistic representations of the self in western art before and after photography. We’ll explore the selfie as a uniquely modern form of self-expression, economized self-promotion, and political subversion at the same time that we consider its roots in the broader history of self-portraiture in the arts. Spanning a period bracketed by contemporary artist selfies on one hand and Albrecht Dürer’s 1500 self-portrait on the other, we’ll consider how artists have historically framed and pictured the self in painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts. This course will draw on objects from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art as well as from major art collections worldwide. At the same time, we’ll explore self-representation on social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. In examining depictions of the self across such varied media, we’ll determine how notions of self-presentation in the arts intersect with questions of individualism, identity, commodity culture, and self-promotion from 1500 to today. 1 Credit. Technology Fee: $85. Tuition: $4,500. Session A: June 7 - July 9.