Intellectual Foundations: Quantitative Reasoning I
A required undergraduate course guides students in interpreting graphs, functions, and quantitative modeling.
Intellectual Foundations: ‘Ideological Experiments of the 20th Century’
Rousseau, Dostoevsky, Marx, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Leszek Kolakowski top the reading list.
Professor David Puelz Says to Challenge Ideology by Following the Data
The statistician and former Goldman Sachs analyst asks questions of counterfactual worlds.
‘Anticipate Challenges, Dead Ends, and Reinventions’: Professor Tim Kane Offers Rules of Life
“UATX offers its founding faculty and students an opportunity to set a new standard that puts excellence and merit back where they belong as the guiding star,” the economics professor says.
University of Austin Founding Freshman Argues for Reinventing Higher Education
A high school senior’s investigation into the student loan crisis leads to a meeting with UATX President Pano Kanelos — and a decision to join the university’s founding class.
Intellectual Foundations: ‘The Beginning of Politics’
Students will examine foundational concepts of political life, society, and human happiness through studying Plato, Aristotle, the Hebrew Bible, and other classic Western texts.
UATX Program Alumni Are Making Science Modeling as Easy as Chat-GPT
“Our focus is on creating tools that scientists will find indispensable,” says Rowan co-founder Corin Wagen.
Professor Isabella Reinhardt on Tragedy, Optimism, and Why Innovators Need the Humanities
“As we look forward to a better future, we have a great wealth of human history and literature and mistakes to learn from,” the classicist says.
Intellectual Foundations: ‘Christianity and Islam, Europe and the East’
A core course will explore the central tenets of Christianity and Islam.
Intellectual Foundations: ‘The American Experiment’
All students will study foundational texts of the American regime.