Programs

School of Civic Leadership

Freedom & Virtue Seminars

What is friendship? What is a good life? How can a political community protect liberty and provide order? What is the common good? Freedom & Virtue Seminars are the School of Civic Leadership’s signature program for prospective high school students to experience what a class at SCL is like. Each seminar brings together bright, motivated high school students for a discussion on an essential text of Western civilization or the American political and economic tradition. This semester, we will read excerpts from Aristotle, John Locke, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and more.

Seminars are led by SCL professors and meet on UT Austin’s campus at the Littlefield Home.

Upcoming Freedom & Virtue Seminars:

Friday, February 6, 2026

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Littlefield Home

Register here.

Friday, March 6, 2026

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Littlefield Home

Register here.

Monday, April 13, 2026

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Littlefield Home

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Friday, May 1, 2026

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Littlefield Home

Register here.

For questions about our Freedom & Virtue Seminars, please contact:

Aubrey Brawner
Assistant Director of Recruiting and Civic Education
School of Civic Leadership
University of Texas at Austin
Email: civics@utexas.edu