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2024 Summer Session Course Syllabi

These syllabi are provided as a reference for students, but are subject to change prior to the start of the course. Summer 2024 syllabi will be added to this page as they are received from the instructors.

FAQ: African American Studies

AFAM S310E - African and Afro-Diasporic Liberation Movements: The Black Radical Tradition

AFAM S312E - Geographies of Freedom: Race, Space, and Gender in the Caribbean

FAQ: African Studies

AFST S310E - African and Afro-Diasporic Liberation Movements: The Black Radical Tradition

FAQ: American Studies

AMST S221 - What is Law?

AMST S310E - Geographies of Freedom: Race, Space, and Gender in the Caribbean

AMST S348 - Space, Place, and Landscape

AMST S350E - Drama in Diaspora: South Asian American Theater and Performance

AMST S365E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

FAQ: Anthropology 

ANTH S110 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH S264E - Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory

ANTH S308E - Feminist & Queer Ethnographies: Dystopia, Catastrophe, Extinction

ANTH S324E - Race, Inequality, Urban Education and Housing Policy

ANTH S423 - The Anthropology of Possible Worlds

ANTH S462 - Global Health Ethnography

ANTH S464 - Human Osteology

ANTH S473E - Climate Change, Societal Collapse and Resilience

FAQ: Applied Physics

APHY S120 - Energy, Environment, and Policy

APHY S151E - Multivariable Calculus for Engineers

APHY S194E - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations with Applications

FAQ: Arabic

ARBC S110E - Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I

ARBC S120E - Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II

FAQ: Archeological Studies

ARCG S264E - Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory

ARCG S464 - Human Osteology

ARCG S473E - Climate Change, Societal Collapse and Resilience

FAQ: Architecture

ARCH S242 - Globalization and Architecture in and through China

FAQ: Art

ART S111 - Visual Thinking

ART S115 - Basic Drawing

ART S138 - Introduction to Digital Photography (Session B)

ART S138E - Introduction to Digital Photography (Session A)

ART S167 - Introduction to Interactive Design: WWW

FAQ: American Sign Language

ASL S110 - American Sign Language I

ASL S120 - American Sign Language II

FAQ: Astronomy

ASTR S110E - Planets and Stars

ASTR S120 - Galaxies and the Universe

FAQ: Biology

BIOL S105 - Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Cell Biology

BIOL S106 - Genes, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

BIOL S300 - Biochemistry

FAQ: Chemical Engineering

CENG S105E - Introduction to Green Energy Systems (GES)

CENG S150E - Engineering Improv: An Introduction to Engineering Analysis

CENG S300E - Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

FAQ: Chemistry

CHEM S101 - Chemistry in Context

CHEM S134L - General Chemistry Laboratory I

CHEM S136L - General Chemistry Laboratory II

CHEM S161 - General Chemistry I

CHEM S165 - General Chemistry II

CHEM S220 - Organic Chemistry I

CHEM S221 - Organic Chemistry II

CHEM S222L - Lab for Organic Chemistry I

CHEM S223L - Lab for Organic Chemistry II

FAQ: Child Study

CHLD S350E - Autism and Related Disorders

FAQ: Classical Civilization

CLCV S125E - Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

FAQ: Cognitive Science

CGSC S152E - Moralities of Everyday Life

FAQ: Computer Science

CPSC S100 - Introduction to Computing and Programming

CPSC S112 - Introduction to Programming

CPSC S202 - Mathematical Tools for Computer Science

CPSC S365 - Algorithms

FAQ: Earth and Planetary Sciences

EPS S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

EPS S130 - Global Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle

FAQ: East Asian Languages and Literature

EALL S212 - Ancient Chinese Thought

EALL S270E - Introduction to East Asian Cinema

FAQ: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

E&EB S464 - Human Osteology

FAQ: Economics

ECON S115E - Introduction to Microeconomics

ECON S116E - Introduction to Macroeconomics

ECON S117E - Introduction to Data Analysis and Econometrics

ECON S159 - Game Theory

ECON S281E - Causes and Consequences of Corruption

ECON S328 - Topics in International Economics

ECON S365 - Algorithms

FAQ: Education Studies 

EDST S255E - Race, Inequality, and Urban Education and Housing Policy

FAQ: Energy Studies

ENRG S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

FAQ: Engineering and Applied Science

ENAS S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

ENAS S151E - Multivariable Calculus for Engineers

ENAS S194E - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations with Applications

FAQ: English

ENGL S114 - Writing Seminars I (30690)

ENGL S114E - Writing Seminars I (30771)

ENGL S114E - Writing Seminars I (30772)

ENGL S120E - Reading and Writing the Modern Essay

ENGL S123E - Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL S127E - Readings in American Literature

ENGL S256 - Writing about Family

ENGL S287E - Literature and the Future

ENGL S404 - Reading Fiction for Craft

ENGL S409E - Introduction to Poetry

ENGL S410 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

ENGL S421 - Writing About Cities

ENGL S434E - Writing Dance

ENGL S456 - Investigative Journalism

FAQ: Environmental Studies 

EVST S121 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

EVST S234 - Global Climate Governance

EVST S304 - Space, Place, and Landscape

EVST S473E - Climate Change, Societal Collapse, and Resilience

FAQ: Ethics, Politics and Economics

EP&E S270 - Lies and Deception

EP&E S306E - First Amendment and the Ethics of Law

EP&E S399E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

EP&E S421E - Death Penalty, Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice Through the Lens of Film

FAQ: Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

ER&M S295E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

ER&M S305 - Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Asian Perspectives

ER&M S310E - African and Afro-Diasporic Liberation Movements: The Black Radical Tradition

ER&M S312E - Geographies of Freedom: Race, Space, and Gender in the Caribbean

ER&M S319E - Drama in Diaspora: South Asian American Theater and Performance

ER&M S369 - Cultural Politics of Borderlands Literatures and Sounds

ER&M S381 - Space, Place, and Landscape

ER&M S391 - Histories of Racism in Science, Medicine, and the University

FAQ: Film & Media Studies

FILM S188E - Sports and Media

FILM S190E - Introduction to East Asian Cinema

FILM S208E - Money and Media: The Business of Hollywood

FILM S268E - Digital Platforms and Cultural Production

FILM S321 - Radical Cinemas in the Global Sixties

FILM S348E - Peak Television

FILM S350 - Screenwriting

FAQ: French

FREN S999E - French for Reading

FAQ: German 

GMAN S190 - The Logic of Dreams

GMAN S221 - What is Law?

GMAN S999E - German for Reading

FAQ: Global Affairs

GLBL S343E - Disinformation and Democracy (2023 syllabus)

FAQ: History

HIST S118E - What Didn't Make it into the Bible

HIST S154E - Early Modern Travel Narratives of the Americas

HIST S179J - Poverty and Public Health in 20th Century US History

HIST S268J - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

HIST S420 - Global Warming - The Historical Context of Climate Change

FAQ: History of Art

HSAR S207E - Classicism and Its Controversies

HSAR S223E - Art Since 1945

FAQ: History of Science and Medicine

HSHM S455 - Histories of Racism in Science, Medicine, and the University

HSHM S461 - Poverty and Public Health in 20th Century US History

FAQ: Humanities

HUMS S106 - Archive, Book, Record: An Introduction to Yale's Special Collections

HUMS S199 - What is Law?

HUMS S221 - The Logic of Dreams

HUMS S225 - Medicine and the Humanities: Certainty and Unknowing

HUMS S332 - Trust - and Mistrust

FAQ: Italian

ITAL S999E - Italian for Reading

FAQ: Judaic Studies 

JDST S351 - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

FAQ: Latin

LATN S110 - Beginning Latin: The Elements of Latin Grammar

LATN S120 - Beginning Latin: Review of Grammar and Selected Readings

FAQ: Linguistics

LING S110E - Introduction to Linguistics

FAQ: Literature

LITR S105 - Archive, Book, Record: An Introduction to Yale's Special Collections

LITR S130 - Bilingual Imaginaries: Thinking, Writing, and Living across Languages

LITR S311 - The Logic of Dreams

LITR S385 - What is Law?

FAQ: Mathematics 

MATH S112E - Calculus of Functions of One Variable I

MATH S115E - Calculus of Functions of One Variable II

MATH S118E - Introduction to Functions of Several Variables

MATH S120E - Calculus of Functions of Several Variables

MATH S222E - Linear Algebra with Applications

MATH S244E - Discrete Mathematics

FAQ: Mechanical Engineering

MENG S280E - Mechanical Engineering I: Strength and Deformation of Mechanical Elements

MENG S383E - Mechanical Engineering III: Dynamics

FAQ: Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

MB&B S200 - Biochemistry

FAQ: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

MCDB S205 - Cell Biology

MCDB S300 - Biochemistry

MCDB S320 - Neurobiology

FAQ: Music

MUSI S110E - Elements of Musical Pitch and Time

MUSI S121E - 1000 Years of Love Songs

MUSI S207 - Commercial Popular Music Theory

MUSI S265E - Introduction to Jazz, Race, and Gender

MUSI S290E - Electronic Dance Music: Fundamentals

FAQ: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

NELC S117E - What Didn't Make it into the Bible

NELC S384E - Old Persian

NELC S473E - Climate Change, Societal Collapse, and Resilience

FAQ: Neuroscience

NSCI S320 - Neurobiology

FAQ: Philosophy

PHIL S110 - Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL S125E - Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

PHIL S152E - Moralities of Everyday Life

PHIL S178 - Introduction to Political Philosophy

PHIL S183 - Philosophy and Technology

PHIL S203 - Ancient Chinese Thought

PHIL S337 - Lies and Deception

PHIL S350 - Trust - and Mistrust

FAQ: Physics

PHYS S101E - Movie Physics

PHYS S120 - Energy, Environment, and Public Policy

PHYS S165L - General Physics Laboratory

PHYS S166L - General Physics Laboratory

PHYS S180E - University Physics

PHYS S181E - University Physics

FAQ: Political Science

PLSC S143 - Global Climate Governance

PLSC S167 - International Human Rights and Politics

PLSC S227E - The United States Congress

PLSC S228E - First Amendment Freedom of Speech and the Ethics of Law

PLSC S270E - Disinformation and Democracy (2023 syllabus)

PLSC S281 - Trust - and Mistrust

PLSC S336 - Lies and Deception

PLSC S361 - Democratic Backsliding

PLSC S410 - Political Protests

PLSC S466 - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

FAQ: Psychology

PSYC S110E - Introduction to Psychology (Session A)

PSYC S110E - Introduction to Psychology (Session B)

PSYC S152E - Moralities of Everyday Life

PSYC S179E - Thinking (Session A)

PSYC S179E - Thinking (Session B)

PSYC S180E - Introduction to Clinical Psychology

PSYC S309E - Multicultural Psychology

PSYC S350E - Autism and Related Disorders

PSYC S434E - The Psychology of Changing One's Mind

FAQ: Religious Studies 

RLST S110 - Introduction to Indian Philosophy

RLST S117E - What Didn't Make it into the Bible 

RLST S324 - The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection

FAQ: Sociology

SOCY S101 - Introduction to Sociology

SOCY S151E - Foundations of Modern Social Theory

SOCY S164 - Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Asian Perspectives

FAQ: South Asian Studies

SAST S475E - Drama in Diaspora: South Asian American Theater and Performance

FAQ: Spanish

SPAN S110 - Elementary Spanish I

SPAN S404E - Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory

SPAN S999E - Spanish for Reading

FAQ: Statistics and Data Sciences

S&DS S107E - Introduction to Statistics

S&DS S230E - Data Exploration and Analysis

FAQ: Theater Studies

THST S213E - Writing Dance

THST S343 - Public Speaking

THST S350E - Drama in Diaspora: South Asian American Theater and Performance

THST S393 - Reading Modern Drama

FAQ: Urban Studies

URBN S348 - Space, Place, and Landscape

FAQ: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGSS S212E - Reading Sexuality

WGSS S263E - Rye: Cultural History and Embodied Practice

WGSS S308E - Feminist & Queer Ethnographies: Dystopia, Catastrophe, Extinction

WGSS S312E - Geographies of Freedom: Race, Space, and Gender in the Caribbean