Since its founding in 1701, Yale has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations. Yale’s reach is both local and international. It partners with its hometown of New Haven, Connecticut to strengthen the city’s community and economy. And it engages with people and institutions across the globe in the quest to promote cultural understanding, improve the human condition, delve more deeply into the secrets of the universe, and train the next generation of world leaders.
Yale Summer Session provides academically rigorous and innovative undergraduate programs and courses to Yale and visiting students across platforms and around the world. Students come to Yale Summer Session to take Yale College courses in New Haven. Studying at Yale gives students a newfound appreciation for their academics and forges friendships that will last a lifetime. Students come to Yale Summer Session to earn credit toward their major and fulfill requirements for their degree, explore a new field or topic, focus intensely on one particular subject, and/or study with Yale faculty.
Academic: GPA of 3.0 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 7.0
– TOEFL iBT: 100
– Duolingo English Test: 120
27 May 2024 – 09 August 2024
Applicants 2023
Applicants : 83 students
GPA : 3.07-4.00
TOEFL iBT Score : 104-108
IELTS Score : 7-8.5
Duolingo English Test Score : 95-150
Awardees 2023
Awardees : 20 students
GPA : 3.30-3.96
TOEFL iBT Score : 108
IELTS Score : 7-8.5
Duolingo English Test Score : 130-150
Available Courses
What is a ‘world’, and what is ‘world cinema’? The course poses these questions from diverse angles and emphasizes watching films from many traditions, places, and periods, in order to become articulate, reflexive, and voracious cinephiles well beyond the context of this class. Students study the history of filmmaking across the globe, with a heavy focus on films made beyond the global North-West, considering how films are made and distributed, who pays for them, and how they find local as well as global audiences. Course examines film history within the larger context of colonialism and globalization, thinking about what it means to watch world cinema from the specific vantage point of a Western, American university.
This course offers an introduction to the transnational history of education in relation to the development of U.S. empire both at home and abroad. By bringing together topics often approached separately — immigration, education, race, colonialism, and the history of U.S. empire — we will interrogate the ways that education has been mobilized to deploy power: controlling knowledge, categorizing and policing difference, administering unequal paths to citizenship/belonging, forcing assimilation, promoting socio-economic divides, and asserting discipline and control. Topics to be covered include American Indian education and self-determination, African American education in slavery and freedom, U.S. colonial education in the Philippines/Cuba/Puerto Rico, immigration and forced Americanization schooling, Latinx fights for educational access and autonomy, State Department experiments in educational diplomacy and child socialization, educational missions abroad, and national security and the war on terror. Throughout, we will draw links between the past and the present and ask what it might mean to “decolonize” education today.
As an introductory class both to the main principles and topics of legal thought and practice, and to cultural criticism, the class will use works of literature, theatre, film and music to acquaint with the field of law, and vice versa. Students will learn in what ways culture has shaped the law, and, in turn, how law governs and shapes culture. Topics include being a person on Instagram and Facebook; Black Lives Matter, the US Constitution; Freedom of Speech, “Calling out” and “Cancel Culture”; Interpretation and Authority; Law, Ethics and Religion; Islam, Nazi Dictatorship and Totalitarianism, The Trump Administration; Criminal Law, Agency and Multiple Personality Disorder; Sampling and Copyright, Hip Hop/Rap in the courtroom.
Seminar that covers the technology, use, and impact of energy on the environment, climate, security, and the economy. Emphasis on what drives people’s choices and how to transition to renewable energy. Tours of energy facilities on the Yale campus. Prerequisite: a strong background in high school physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
An introductory science course for the general student interested in better understanding Earth’s climate system, covering mechanisms of the carbon cycle, greenhouse gases, insolation, and weathering. Measurements of ancient climate cycles, ice age cycles, and post-industrial climate trends and causes will be discussed. Prerequisite of high school algebra.
Introduction to American national government. The Constitution, American political culture, civil rights, Congress, the executive, political parties, public opinion, interest groups, the media, social movements, and the policy-making process.
Study of anthropological ethnographies on serious health problems facing populations in resource-poor societies. Poverty and structural violence; struggles with infectious disease; the health of women and children; human rights and medical humanitarianism. Focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Middle East.
*Limited to 18 students
Techniques of in-depth reporting, ranging from interviews and document research to journalistic storytelling; the evolution of “muckraking” in the United States; and the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by such work. Improvement of the students’ practical research and narrative skills through weekly assignments and a term-long writing project. Designed equally for those with journalistic experience and for those with skills in other arenas.
*Limited to 30 students
Sherwin Nuland often referred to medicine as “the Uncertain Art.” In this course, we will address the role of uncertainty in medicine, and the role that narrative plays in capturing that uncertainty. We will focus our efforts on major authors and texts that define the modern medical humanities, with primary readings by Mikhail Bulgakov, Henry Marsh, Atul Gawande, and Lisa Sanders. Other topics will include the philosophy of science (with a focus on Karl Popper), rationalism and romanticism (William James), and epistemology and scientism (Wittgenstein). 1 Credit.
Mixed/multi-identities have been part of U.S. history since the nation’s birth, but the year 2020 marked only the third time in U.S. history that Americans were able to check more than one racial/ethnic category in the census. Today multiracial people in the US and other nations are gaining more visibility and recognition. With this visibility, however, comes inevitable scrutiny and ambivalence as evidenced by debates over the identity choices of high-profile multiracial people and the broader social and political implications of a growing social group. This course introduces students to contemporary discussions, debates and narratives surrounding multiracial people. By reading and discussing scholarly, literary, editorial, and visual texts, students critically examine the spaces multiracial people occupy in the U.S. and in other global contexts and explore the identity politics and perspectives that mark these experiences. Students also explore the growing narratives and spaces being created to build communities and express multi-subjectivities. Through class discussions, writing reflections, and a final project, students are encouraged to explore their own identities and subjectivities as they relate to larger discourses, current events, and narratives around race and intersecting identities.