Polaris Project
Polaris Program courses lead students through the process of envisioning and creating a Polaris Project in a highly collaborative setting while training them how to effectively employ the tools, processes, and interpersonal behaviors that drive high performance in the modern professional world.
The Polaris Project, named for the North Star by which explorers have navigated for centuries, offers a four-year educational through-line that calls on students to build, create, or discover something that serves the human good.
Polaris Projects are developed in a workshop environment and can be creative, scholarly, technical, artistic, philanthropic, entrepreneurial—this list is not exhaustive.
A graduate from this program will:
- Understand and articulate the history of Western culture from antiquity to the present day in its broad outlines, with reference to religion, philosophy, and the arts
- Discern and explain the relation between form, content, and historical context in works of art and debates about systems of belief
- Use those disciplinary tools to analyze a broad range of economic and political problems that have arisen in human history
- Navigate the history and culture of at least one non-European, non-Anglophone civilization
- Consider the implications of those four learning outcomes for public policy
program design:
Total Program Requirement
Center
Faculty
Selected
Readings
A curated collection of foundational texts in economics, politics, philosophy, and history that shape the intellectual framework of the program.
Available
Courses
Explore the range of courses offered through the Center, from analytical tools and economic theory to political philosophy and historical inquiry.
| Number | Course Title | Element | CR | Syllabi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POL 1100 | Polaris Retreat | Project | 0 | |
| POL 1110 | Polaris Ideas | Project | 3 | |
| POL 2100 | Polaris Inspirations | Project | 3 | |
| POL 2110 | Polaris Frame | Project | 3 | |
| POL 3100 | Polaris Pitch | Project | 3 | |
| POL 3110 | Polaris Build | Project | 1.5 | |
| POL 4150 | Polaris Launch | Project | 3 |
Begin Your
Pursuit
An independent university dedicated to free inquiry, civil discourse, and the relentless search for what is real and what is right.
From day one to graduation, the Polaris Project guides you in conceiving, pitching, building, and presenting a signature project that serves the human good under faculty mentorship and a structured, cumulative curriculum.
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