Directed Studies offers a select group of freshmen an intense interdisciplinary introduction to some of the seminal texts of Western civilization. Working in discussion seminars with top Yale faculty, DS students learn to analyze complex texts and more…..
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Application Information
Applications to Directed Studies for 2018-19 are now open until June 3, 2018.
Questions? Contact Director of Undergraduate Studies Kathryn Slanski at kathryn.slanski@yale.edu.
What's Happening in DS
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Gallery Talk with curator John Stuart Gordon: Material Culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction May 1, 2018 John Stuart Gordon is a Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at... |
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End-of-Year Celebration April 30, 2018 Please join us for the Directed Studies end-of-year party and awards! |
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Papyri to Penguin-DS @ the Beinecke April 30, 2018 Manuscripts of Tocqueville, Proust, Wordsworth, DuBois, and more! |
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Gallery Talk with curator Pam Franks: Modernism April 25, 2018 Pamela Franks is Senior Deputy Director and the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and... |
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Bulldog Days April 24, 2018 Become a DS Ambassador and help spread the word! Directed Studies will hold a panel discussion with... |
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Creative Destruction: Translating for Film and TV April 23, 2018 Presented by the “Talking about Translation” series. A presentation by Directed Studies Professor... |
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Homer’s Homelessness April 16, 2018 Directed Studies Colloquium presents “Homer’s Homelessness” by Dan-el Padilla Peralta (... |
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Dinner and Discussion with Dan-el Padilla Peralta April 15, 2018 Directed Studies and the Humanities Program present a Callings and Pathways dinner and discussion... |
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Translating the World: The Poetry of What We Do April 13, 2018 Join us Friday, April 13th, for a conversation between Peter Cole (Comparative Literature and... |
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Excursion to see The Tragedy of King Lear April 8, 2018 Excursion to see The Tragedy of King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Company) at Brooklyn Academy of Music... |
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DS Gallery Talk: Romantic Painters Turner and Constable! March 2, 2018 Scott Wilcox, Deputy Director of Collections, will lead us in viewing works by Romantic painters... |
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American Identity in the Age of Trump February 26, 2018 The Class of ‘37 Directed Studies Colloquium George Packer, Staff writer, The New Yorker ... |
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Othello the remix February 8, 2018 A performance by the Q BROTHERS COLLECTIVE (Elizabethan Club, First-Year Seminar Program,... |
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Making Homer’s ILIAD January 31, 2018 The Class of ‘37 Directed Studies Colloquium Stathis Livathinos, Director of the National... |
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Monuments of Classical Culture: From Athens to New Haven November 30, 2017 The Class of ‘37 Directed Studies Colloquium Milette Gaifman, History of Art and Classics... |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou, Directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (USA, 2001) 107 min. March 31, 2017 In conjunction with the DS@70 Celebration, sponsored by Directed Studies and The Humanities Program... |
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DS@70! March 31, 2017 to April 1, 2017 Come celebrate the 70th anniversary of Yale’s “radical experiment in liberal education”: our own... |
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Gallery Talk @Yale British Art Center March 1, 2017 In conjunction with our study of Wordsworth, Curator Scott Wilcox will lead us on a discussion of... |
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Renaissance Art with Curator Larry Kanter February 23, 2017 The YUAG’s Chief Curator Laurence Kanter will lead an exploration of Renaissance art on the... |
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A Somali Tempest? February 22, 2017 Toni Dorfman, a professor and former DUS of Yale’s Theater Studies department, will lead a... |
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Atheism and the Novel January 26, 2017 First colloquium of the new semester, next Thursday, January 26, 4pm, LC 102, with James Wood,... |
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Literature
Lectures
Friday, 11:35–12:25
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)
Philosophy
Lectures
Monday, 11:35-12:25
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)
Historical & Political Thought
Lectures
Wednesday, 11:35–12:25
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)