Great Books (Assistant Professor)
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, Texas, US
Description The School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanit...
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Description The School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, invites applications for full-time tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level in the Great Books (disciplinary specialty open). Considering the responsibility public institutions of higher education have to prepare students for leadership in a free society, the University of Texas System Board of Regents established the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin. The School of Civic Leadership is an interdisciplinary school whose dual mission is to equip students with the knowledge and aptitudes necessary to lead in a free society, and to produce academic research at the highest levels of scholarly excellence. Successful candidates will teach in a discussion-based Great Books curriculum centered on close reading of primary texts. Courses are conducted as discussion sections and seminars in which students engage directly with foundational, wisdom-seeking works in and between a range of disciplines: political thought, philosophy, literature, religious studies, and the liberal arts broadly. Instruction empha...