Wednesday, July, 8,2014

After the seminar in the afternoon, I went to the Free Public library, the first for me to be in a library in New Haven and Yale, though I love libraries and have been planning and expecting to be with them a lot.

Just as at the art gallery, I was startled, not by the collections, but by people reading there. You know there are not so many libraries for us and most our people seldom go to any one all their life. At the fewer libraries are usually educated people(or so-called intellectuals) who are there to search information for their researches and papers. But I saw many who seemingly are not so well-educated, just like from the lower class. Sure this is just my supposition, I may be totally wrong, but I felt that.

I borrowed three new novels there, which I don’t know whether I have enough time to go through, for there is too much for me to explore and experience.

It is said there are 22 libraries in yale. The following are some of them, I don’t think I can set my feet on all of them.

Wednesday, July, 8,2014

After the seminar in the afternoon, I went to the Free Public library, the first for me to be in a library in New Haven and Yale, though I love libraries and have been planning and expecting to be with them a lot.

Just as at the art gallery, I was startled, not by the collections, but by people reading there. You know there are not so many libraries for us and most our people seldom go to any one all their life. At the fewer libraries are usually educated people(or so-called intellectuals) who are there to search information for their researches and papers. But I saw many who seemingly are not so well-educated, just like from the lower class. Sure this is just my supposition, I may be totally wrong, but I felt that.

I borrowed three new novels there, which I don’t know whether I have enough time to go through, for there is too much for me to explore and experience.

It is said there are 22 libraries in yale. The following are some of them, I don’t think I can set my feet on all of them.








Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library


Public Free library


sterling memorial library

Tuesday, July, 7, 2014.

This afternoon we went to the Yale university Art Gallery. I, all of us, I bet, were startled and fascinated by such a broad and precious collections of arts of different places, different times and different people. I love museums and galleries, and have been to some at home, but ours usually collect and house our own arts, not so various from different resources. I couldn’t imagine a university can have such an art gallery, but now I’m here appreciating and enjoying it with my own eyes.

Chinese has a long history, so we don’t take it seriously. And we lack good art education, for we spend too much of our time, energy, attention and money on examinations of all levels. So We people don’t have enough respect and interest to history, to arts, to galleries and museums. Sure it’s changing.

    I searched net for more information about Yale’s galleries and museums. The following is a list. I’m going to cover all of them.   

The Yale University Art Gallery, founded in 1832, today houses a collection that has grown to rank with those of the major public art museums in the United States. Its two connected buildings house ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art, Near and Far Eastern art, archaeological material from the University’s excavations, Pre-Columbian and African art, works of European and American masters from virtually every period, and a rich collection of modern art. Across the street, the Yale Center for British Art, which opened in 1977, holds the largest collection of British art and illustrated books anywhere outside the United Kingdom.


Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, founded in 1866, contains one of the great scientific collections in North America. Among its holdings are the University’s comprehensive mineralogical and ornithological collections, the second-largest repository of dinosaur artifacts in the United States, and the largest intactApatosaurus (Brontosaurus) in the world. The Peabody is truly a working museum, where public exhibition, research, conservation, teaching, and learning intersect.


Institutions like the Art Gallery, the Center for British Art, and the Peabody Museum hold only a portion of the treasures in the University’s collections. From paintings by Picasso, to pterodactyl remains, to a 1689 tenor viol in theCollection of Musical Instruments, Yale’s possessions are meant to be accessible to the communities they enrich.


Exhibitions are also frequently mounted at the following venues on campus: Art + Architecture Gallery (School of Architecture),Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Green Hall Gallery (School of Art), and Sterling Memorial Library, including the Arts of the Book Collection.

Today is Saturday, July 4, 2014, American Independence Day, our first one in Yale.

As planned, we have field trips on Friday. So yesterday we went to Yale’s outdoor education center. It is actually a lake, beautiful, but different from our “center”. We had a special meal in a pavillion near the lake with the pouring rain outside. After the meal, I walked along, took some pictures and then we went back, feeling a little pity .

Today we went to the crossing outlets in Clinton by train. It is a great fun to take a train in America, which is quite different from that in China, fewer passangers, slower, cleaner, more friendly conductors, but not cheaper.

It was the first time for me to be in an outlets(our home city Changsha has outlets too, though somewhat different), I am not a shopaholic. The mall is nice, with many brands and lower prices, and a special discount action for the independence day.

Delia and I stayed there for no more than three hours( from 12:30 or so to 15:00 pm). I left with two watches , a sunglass and one shirt, Delia, nothing.

After supper, Delia went to bed early with exhaustion, while I took a walk alone. Fortunately I noticed a school bus beside the gym, and I went to talk to the driver, realizing that they were waiting to take us sumer session students to the Independence Day fireworks show in Orange county. I decided to go. The bus was supposed to go at 7, but until 8, only me was there with them. Finally we went, the friendly talktive black driver Joe and his cute 7- year old daughter chandler.  

We enjoyed the live band, the fireworks, the talks there in the park. Such a wonderful community gathering for the local people and me, a Chinese from far away. What an experience!

I have no idea what happened to the others, I had an incrediable celebration of the indepence day of the united states of America, which I respect very much.

We admire the long summer vacations(usually from the end of May to the end of August) in North America(the States and Canada mainly) and assumed that summer compus of American universities are silent and quiet, just like ours. But now I get to know that there are such various summer session courses for students to choose.By the way, two confusing words are somewhat clear to me now, and I soppose both of them are not appropriate to describe our academic year in China. 

The following are some of the courses for the 2014 summer session, just 23 from 52 fields all together.

1.Ameican studies

AMST S303 01US Cities in a Global Age

AMST S304 01EthnogrphicFieldwrk:Analy&Prac

AMST S321 01Hollywd Novel & Hollywd Movie

AMST S483 01Film, Video & American History

2.Ancient Greek

GREK S110 01	Beg Greek: Elements of Grammar
3.Anthropology

ANTH S116 01Intro Biological Anthropology

ANTH S123 01Forensic Anthropology

ANTH S150 01Genesis&CollapseOfOldWorldCivs

ANTH S204 01Molecular Anthropology

ANTH S219 01EthnogrphicFieldwrk:Analy&Prac

4.Art

ART S115 01	Basic Drawing
ART S130 01	Painting Basics
ART S138 01	Intro to Digital Photography
ART S185 01	Principles of Animation

5.British Studies

BRST 173 01	Socty&CultLondonStow-Hogarth
BRST 194 01	BrtshTheatreNowTexts&Prfrmnces

6.Chemistry

CHEM S101 01	Chemistry in the Modern World
CHEM S114 01	ComprehensiveGeneralChemistry
CHEM S115 01	ComprehensiveGeneralChemistry
CHEM S220 01	Organic Chemistry
CHEM S221 02	Organic Chemistry

7.Ciassical Civilization

CLCV S115 01Classical Mythologies

CLCV S244 0Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

8.Economics

ECON S159 01	Game Theory
ECON S170 01	HealthEconomics &Public Policy
ECON S275 01	Public Economics
ECON S281E 01	Causes&ConsequencesCorruption
ECON S285 01	Welfare Economics and Equality
ECON S285E 01	Welfare Economics and Equality
ECON S476 01	Topics in Intn'l Economics

9.English

ENGL S114 01Writing Seminars I

ENGL S114 02Writing Seminars I

ENGL S114 03Writing Seminars I

ENGL S114 04Writing Seminars I

ENGL S114 05Writing Seminars I

ENGL S114 06Writing Seminars I

ENGL S114 3Writing Seminars I

ENGL S120 01Reading & Writing Modern Essay

ENGL S127 01ReadingsIn American Literature

ENGL S200 01Shakespeare:Comedies&Romances

ENGL S201 01ShakespeareHistories&Tragedies

ENGL S244 01WritngHist&NonFictionNarrative

ENGL S247 01Travel Writing

ENGL S361E 01Modern American Drama

ENGL S362 01Theater Now

ENGL S392 01DigitalLivesFiction&Nonfiction

ENGL S458 01ReviewngTheaterFilmDance&Music

10.Film Studies

FILM S143 01	In Prague Film and Fiction
FILM S166 01	CmputrAnimatnArtIndstrySciety
FILM S180 01	Hollywd Novel & Hollywd Movie
FILM S182 01	The Blockbuster and the Bomb
FILM S188 01	Sports and Media
FILM S202 01	IndependentFilmmakingWorkshop
FILM S208 01	The Business of Hollywood
FILM S247 01	Film, Video & American History

11.Global Affairs

GLBL S341 01IntroHumanRightsTheory&Prctice

12.History

HIST S130 01	History of American West
HIST S187 01	Film, Video & American History
HIST S199 01	WritngHist&NonFictionNarrative
HIST S201 01	Crusades and Medieval Europe
HIST S202 01	History of the Vikings
HIST S261 01	The Cold War
HIST S306 01	Empires of East Asia
HIST S444 01	US Cities in a Global Age

13.History of Art

HSAR S244 01	Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
HSAR S382 01	Art&RevolutioninModMiddleEast
HSAR S458 01	Ten Works of Western Art
HSAR S494 01	The Blockbuster and the Bomb

14.Humanities

HUMS S213 01	Classical Mythologies
HUMS S217 01	Bodies in Law and Literature
HUMS S221 01	The Logic of Dreams
HUMS S267 01	Age of Cathedrals

15.Literature

LITR S120 01	Introduction to Narrative
LITR S164 01	Classical Mythologies
LITR S176 01	Age of Cathedrals
LITR S222 01	The Holocaust: Rhetoric, Film
LITR S311 01	The Logic of Dreams

16.Philosophy

PHIL S100 01	Happiness
PHIL S110 01	Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL S182 01	Intro to Philosophy of Law
PHIL S220 01	Eastern Philosophy
PHIL S331 01	Environmental Ethics
PHIL S337 01	Lies and Deception

17.Psychology

PSYC S130 01Introduction Cognitive Science

PSYC S180 01Abnormal Psychology

PSYC S306 01NatureNurture&HumanDevelopment

18.Religion

REL 3603 01ElemBiblicalHebrew-Sumr Intnsv

REL 3606 01ElemNTGreek-Summer Intensive

19.Religion Studies

RLST S108 01Cosmogonic Myths

RLST S108 1Cosmogonic Myths

20.Political Science

PLSC S114 01	Intro to Political Philosophy
PLSC S134 01	IntroHumanRightsTheory&Prctice
PLSC S157 01	US Strategy After the Cold War
PLSC S176 01	The Cold War
PLSC S235 01	PoltclJrnlsm&ImpctonPublPolicy
PLSC S286 01	Terrorism, Law, Morality
PLSC S335 01	Environmental Ethics
PLSC S336 01	Lies and Deception
PLSC S349 01	Ethnic Conflict
PLSC S391 01	War and Constitutions

21.Theater Studies

THST S262 01	Theater Now
THST S392E 01	Modern American Drama

22.Women’s gender&Sexuality Studies

WGSS S110 01	Sex & Gender in Society
WGSS S120 01	Women, Food and Culture

23.Science

SCIE S101 01ScientfcRsrch:Proces&Presntatn