The University of Austin will genuinely teach classic works.

Judge on evidence up to the time of research. True: UATX's curriculum includes required or core courses built around classic works (for example Great Books, Western or other canonical texts) that are actually taught to enrolled students. Mostly true: classic works appear prominently in courses, but are not a required core. Mixed: classic works appear only in a minority of the offerings. Mostly false: there is only incidental use of classic texts. False: there is no such teaching, or no instruction took place.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 415 Texts Our Students Are Reading From This Fall UATX (University of Austin) Substack · 28 September 2026

   “Epic and Tragedy Professors Isabella Reinhardt, David Levy, Allison Levy, and Spencer Klavan - The Odyssey, Homer - Bacchae, Euripides”

2. E2 2025-2026 Academic Catalog University of Austin · 26 August 2026

   “Students must complete 180 credit hours (45 per academic year) to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, normally distributed over three terms per year with a course load of fifteen hours per term. Within these 180 hours, they must complete the following: Intellectual Foundations”

3. E3 We charge you nothing except everything you’ve got. University of Austin · 1 March 2026

   “Every undergraduate completes a core grounded in the Great Books of Western civilization, alongside rigorous training in mathematics, the sciences, and AI.”

4. E4 Built to battle ‘woke’ academia, a new Texas school takes on fresh relevance after Oct. 7 The Times of Israel · 24 August 2024

   “The first two years will focus on what the school calls Intellectual Foundations, offering programs diving into the works of Homer, Plato, George Orwell, Tocqueville, Confucius, and Descartes among others;”

The 2025-2026 academic catalog makes "Intellectual Foundations" a required part of the BA (E2). The university's homepage says every undergraduate completes a core grounded in the Great Books of Western civilization (E3). A fall 2026 reading list of texts students are currently reading includes courses such as Epic and Tragedy, which assigns Homer's Odyssey and Euripides' Bacchae (E1). Earlier independent reporting described the Intellectual Foundations years as built on works by Homer, Plato, Tocqueville, Confucius and others (E4). Together these show classic works being taught to enrolled students in a required core, which meets the criteria for true.