About the Academy
The USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study is an intellectual space where students and eminent faculty learn to integrate multiple fields of learning through exploration and dialogue. Located in its own quarters on the second floor of Doheny Memorial Library and in the Ahmanson Lab in Leavey Library, the Academy offers a series of conversational encounters, student-led activity, and hands-on workshops intended to intensify polymathic (integrated interdisciplinary) awareness and skill sets. All programming is anchored in and structured by the Quadrants of Polymathic Inquiry: critical and integrative thinking, study of leading polymaths, tapestry, and communication.