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Curricular Innovation Grants

Call for Proposals

Grants for Curricular Innovation and Renewal in the Arts will generally range from $1,000 to $3,500. They are intended to support individual or groups of faculty and full-time lecturers who wish to develop new undergraduate or graduate courses in the arts, and/or revise and renew existing arts courses.

We especially hope to encourage:

  • creation of cross-divisional and cross-departmental courses
  • intra-departmental courses that stretch the usual boundaries
  • projects that combine rigorous scholarly and theoretical approaches (in, for example, music or art history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology, etc.) with creative and performative practice and study

Grants can be used to support a variety of activities, such as:

  • hiring a research assistant to help prepare the course (not a teaching assistant)
  • funding a workshop to design a new course (or revise an old one)
  • hiring performers/artists
  • purchasing materials related to the course (software, slides,recordings, videos, and other arts-related materials and equipment)

Those wishing to apply for grants should submit a proposal by the following deadlines:

  • Fall Quarter Deadline: Friday, November 6, 2009
    (notification of funding by November 20)
  • Winter Quarter Deadline: Friday, February 5, 2010
    (notification of funding February 19)
  • Spring Quarter Deadline: Friday, April 23, 2010
    (notification of funding by May 7)

Proposals (3-5 pages) should contain:

  • description of the purpose, content, and format of the proposed course
  • statement of how the new or revised course would enhance the arts curriculum
  • description of the specific ways the grant would be used
  • one-page budget

Please submit proposals via email (in one PDF attachment, with “curricular grant applicant” and your name as the subject line of your email) to . If you do not receive confirmation of your submission within five days, please contact .

We look forward to receiving your ideas for new ways to conceptualize and carry out our teaching of the arts across the University.

Individuals needing assistance writing a strong proposal should contact . A sample proposal may be found here (PDF).

Final reports will be required following the completion of projects funded with the support of Curricular Innovation Grants. Further proposals from the same applicants will not be considered until the report regarding the previous Arts Council award has been submitted.

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