Programs
For High School Students
School of Civic Leadership
Freedom & Virtue Seminars
Freedom & Virtue Seminars are the School of Civic Leadership’s signature program for prospective students. Each seminar brings together bright, motivated high school students with a passion for Western civilization, the American Founding, and the common good.
In each seminar, an SCL professor leads a small cohort of high school students in a discussion of an essential text of Western civilization or the American tradition. These seminars are a great way to experience what a real class at the SCL is like.
Seminars meet on UT Austin’s campus.
Freedom & Virtue Seminars ask questions such as:
What is friendship?
What’s a good life?
What is good, beautiful, true?
How can a political community protect liberty and provide order?
What is the common good?
Potential Seminar Themes
Excellence of Character: The Virtues
The Quest for Community
Politics and the Transcendent
Perennial Problems of Politics
Origins of American Institutions
Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern
Democracy and Capitalism
Truth and Persuasion
Have questions about our Freedom & Virtue Seminars? Please contact:
Antonio Sosa
Associate Director
School of Civic Leadership
University of Texas at Austin
Email: antonio.sosa@austin.utexas.edu
