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Alumni Education
University Seminars are two-day to ten day programs conducted by Yale faculty members in a variety of intellectual disciplines. Past topics have included genetic engineering, classical Greece, art and architecture in America, national security and international order, computer science and American literature. University Seminars in the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and the arts are planned each year for New Haven and a variety of other locations around the country and abroad.
Alumni Colleges Abroad offer a wide array of educational travel programs to
destinations around the world. Group size can vary from an intimate 15-20
up to 80-90 on the most popular cruise programs. But in all cases, the educational
connection through Yale faculty lectures remains at the heart of these AYA
educational travel programs.
The AYA sponsors over sixty educational travel programs around the world for alumni to enjoy in the company of one or two Yale faculty members. Past tours, which have varied in length from seven to twenty-eight days, have taken alumni to archaeological sites in the Yucatan, on cruises through the Sea of Cortez, the Islands of Indonesia, and along the coasts of Costa Rica, West Africa and to Antarctica. There are educational travel opportunities both for those who wish to go by land and those who prefer to cruise. The AYA also offers opportunities for families to travel and learn together through our family programs.
Yale for Alumni: Alumni College Term Time, provides the opportunity for graduates to return to New Haven and enroll in regular undergraduate courses either for credit or on an audit basis. This program welcomed its first participants in the fall of 1984 and is one of the most significant ways that Yale men and women can return to the campus and continue their intellectualaffiliations with the University. Most courses are open to alumni who enroll for credit, while many of the popular courses are also open on an audit basis.
Another AYA educational program is a series of videotaped lectures by some of Yale’s finest scholars entitled the Yale Great Teachers Series. Each program includes six half hour lectures, visual materials, texts and a study guide. The initial introduction of the series featured programs by six of Yale’s best classroom teachers and outstanding scholars. In 1995 four more titles were added, so alumni can enjoy reconnecting to a Yale educational program in the comfort of their own homes.
The AYA Speakers Program offers Yale Clubs and Classes the opportunity to hear Yale faculty and administrators speak in their local area. Scores of groups take advantage of this program to renew ties with the intellectual life of Yale, and many have expanded this opportunity into one- or two-day club seminars.
All of the AYA educational programs have a value of their own, but they also provide unparalleled opportunities for Yale alumni to study, travel and share leisure moments together, thus reinforcing an educational affiliation which continues to play an important part in their lives.
