The Signature Courses celebrate faculty engagement and empathy with two awards: the Holleran Steiker Award for Creative Student Engagement and the Signature Course Educating Through Empathy Award.

View past recipients of the awards.

Holleran Steiker Award

The Holleran Steiker Award was created by the School of Undergraduate Studies to celebrate a Signature Course professor whose teaching creatively engages students in learning. The recipient of this award is, by definition, innovative and imaginative, challenging and inspirational. Professors who are given this honor deeply inspire their students as well as those in and beyond the UT Austin community.

Dr. Thomas Palaima – Spring 2022
College of Liberal Arts, Department of Classics
UGS 302: Bob Dylan and Social-Historical Imagination

Signature Course Educating Through Empathy Award

The university strongly supports creating opportunities for all students to connect with professors, the course material, and each other. Professors who are given this honor deeply inspire their students as well as those in and beyond the UT Austin community.