Christie will teach a 15-person seminar for graduate and undergraduate students titled “How to Run a Political Campaign” at Yale this fall, according to a new report from Semafor. The class will look into the complexities of running a campaign in the 2020s.

“Political campaigns in the 2020s are becoming more technology dependent, more confusing and difficult from a communications perspective and even more fraught with pitfalls and personal challenges,” the class description reads.

“When deciding whether to run for any office, all of these issues must be confronted in addition to the core considerations of issue positions, fundraising and the most important question of all: If I do win, what do I want to accomplish and what kind of leader do I want to be?” the course description continues.

Christie ran two successful Republican campaigns for governor in blue New Jersey. He was popular for his leadership during and after Hurricane Sandy but struggled in the state once he began to align himself with national Republicans as he launched his presidential campaign in 2016. He left the office of the governor with low approval ratings after Bridgegate and Beachgate left his reputation in the state tarnished.

Both of Christie’s presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2024 were unsuccessful. 

He and former President Donald Trump were once friends, but their relationship soured when Trump began promoting the conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen from him and the resulting Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol. During Christie’s 2024 run, he made his anti-Trump sentiment a focal point of his campaign. 

“In no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again. And that’s more important than my own personal ambition,” Christie said when he ended his campaign in January before the Iowa caucuses after seeing no clear path to victory. 

Students will receive one college credit for taking Christie’s weekly class that lasts an hour and 50 minutes.