David Weeks, PhD

Endowed Chair and Professor, Honors College

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 2408

Email: [email protected]

Office Location: Mary Hill Center, Room 129

David L. Weeks, PhD, is the inaugural Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Citizenship and Civic Virtue in the Honors College. Prior to this role, Weeks was the founding dean of Azusa Pacific’s Honors College. He previously served as the dean of APU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His academic interests include Christian liberal education, the humanities, political philosophy, and American politics, especially the intersection of religion and politics. He has published several articles on these topics and coedited a book titled The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities (University Press of America, 1998).

Education

• PhD, Loyola University, Chicago
• MA, Indiana State University
• BS, Indiana Wesleyan University

Academic Area

• Honors College

Expertise

• Christian Liberal Education
• Religion and Politics
• Political Philosophy

Courses Taught

• HON 101 – Leadership
• HON 240 – Core I
• POLI 360 – Classical Political Thought
• POLI 363 – Modern Political Thought
• POLI 496 – Senior Seminar: Religion and Politics