High School Students

You have questions: What is friendship? What’s a good life? What is justice? How can a political community protect liberty and provide order? What is the common good?

Your education can be more than earning a degree. It can help you decide what is worth doing with your life.

The Freedom & Virtue Seminars at UT Austin’s School of Civic Leadership (SCL) bring together bright, motivated high school students with a passion for Western civilization, the American founding, and the common good.

In the 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. Seminars meet at UT Austin. Click the link to apply.

8:30 AM-11:00 AM CST, Friday, September 6, 2024

8:30 AM-11:00 AM CST, Thursday, October 3, 2024

8:30 AM-11:00 AM ST, Friday, November 8, 2024

8:30 AM-11:00 AM CST, Friday, December 6, 2024

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

Please address inquiries to:
Antonio Sosa
Associate Director
School of Civic Leadership
University of Texas at Austin
Email: antonio.sosa@austin.utexas.edu