HSYLC
Please visit the official HSYLC site at www.hsylc.org
From its inception, HSYLC was designed to inspire the qualities of Scholarship, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Citizenship among its participants. To achieve our vision, three-hundred top Chinese high school students, forty Harvard undergraduates and forty volunteers from elite Chinese universities congregate for nine days in late August each year.
During the Student Seminars, conceived and taught by Harvard students, summit participants explore topics ranging from Grecian philosophy to modern art, and they are encouraged to independently analyze, discuss and challenge ideas. Similarly, the Distinguished Speaker Series exposes students to knowledge and experiences outside the classroom by providing them with access to the insights of leaders in business, politics, academia and the arts.
Finally, Action for Tomorrow Venture (ATVenture) offers students the opportunity to act as innovators and leaders, and to better understand their community and realistic means of making a difference. By participating in these programs and more, students will find HSYLC and enjoyable, challenging and deeply meaningful experience.
US Programs
Ten to fifteen student delegates will be selected through a vigorous application and interview process from universities across China to participate in a five-day student exchange program in which they will be able to share their perspectives on China's changing role on the world stage as well as gain insight into the American liberal arts education system. Their unique personal experiences will shed light on the Chinese way of life--and how that differs to such a great extent from the life that Americans have always known.
The program combines the experience of a liberal arts education at Harvard with interactive programs that will introduce to the Chinese exchange students a worldview that is based on the American culture, thus allowing them to integrate this with their original Eastern perspectives to perceive a fuller understanding of the world. In the meantime, through interactions with the Chinese delegates, the Harvard students will have the opportunity to examine the social and cultural aspects of China with more authentic and personal angles--giving them a chance to see China and its people under a new light. Our goal is to create an intrinsic revelation for students of both sides as they attempt to form their own opinions of the two countries with an uncontaminated perspective.
