George Wythe University (GWU) is a non-profit classical liberal arts school in Salt Lake City, Utah which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts, education and political philosophy. GWU's curriculum borrows from the Great Books of the Western World published in 1952 by Britannica, and its methodology is based on the Socratic seminar and Oxford tutorial models. The school focuses primarily on preparing students for leadership and is dedicated specifically to laying an educational foundation for building future statesmen. The school is named in honor of George Wythe, mentor to Thomas Jefferson.