Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study announces
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Harman Academy
Friday, September 23-Saturday September 24
2021 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study. In celebration of this milestone, we are hosting festivities across two days—panel discussions, dinners, technology showcases—celebrating over a decade of exploring everything within the polymathic framework.
We would like to invite you to apply to be a member of a cohort of undergraduates who will join a distinguished group of Harman Fellows (our recent alums) and esteemed faculty from across campus to explore what polymathy means and how it might be meaningful to your professional and personal life.
Festivities begin the evening of Friday, September 23 through Saturday September 24, 2022.
Here are a few reflections from our past fellows that will give you a sense of the rich experience the Harman Academy for Polymathic Study can be:
I loved when people were given the space to imagine things, to think beyond the limits of normal academic thought and use their knowledge to help imagine a better future or re-examine the present through that lens. ~ Harman Fellow, 2016
“Through this experience, I was able to question my own assumptions about the world and generate more nuanced, innovative, and complex frameworks of understanding that I carry with me.” ~Harman Fellow, 2014
“The Academy was such a judgment free space, I loved coming to the sessions, eating easy food and talking about the world.” ~Harman Fellow, 2018
If you haven’t heard of us before, the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study is an intellectual space where students and faculty, through a series of conversational encounters, retreats, and labs, explore the interconnectedness of multiple fields of learning. The academy’s series of programs, based in Doheny and Leavey libraries [The Harman Academy and Ahmanson Lab respectively], promotes student engagement with peers and faculty across disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry and is a place to test run your ideas without academic burden or pressures. For more information about the Harman Academy and all its offerings, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Karin Huebner at khuebner@usc.edu.
Application
Due no later than Friday, September 2, 11:59pm.
Please send your application in pdf format to Dr. Karin Huebner at khuebner@usc.edu.
Name:
Student ID #:
Pronouns:
Expected Graduation:
Major(s):
Minor(s):
Please answer the two following questions:
- How do you see yourself as a polymath? (150 word maximum)
- What three polymaths (living, dead or imagined) would you like to share a meal with and why? (200 word maximum)