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 high school 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 class at SCL is like.
Seminars meet on UT Austin’s campus at the Littlefield Home.
Upcoming Freedom & Virtue Seminars:
Friday, November 7, 2025
8:30 am – 11:00 am
Register here
Freedom & Virtue Seminars ask questions such as:
What is friendship?
What is 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
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
