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Curricular Innovation Grants: Past Grants
- “Catharsis and other aesthetic responses (including Boredom)”
- $1,500 in funding to support the renewal and cross-disciplinary renovation of a graduate seminar
- Early Modern Japanese Art History
- $500 to support the enhancement of a new undergraduate core Art in Context course
- “Cinema of the Balkans”
- $2,000 in funding towards the creation of a new course
- Parisian World’s Fair
- $1,520 in funding towards the creation of a new Art History course at the University of Chicago Center in Paris
- The ‘Writing’ of Modern Life
- $3,640 granted to support the planning and implementation of a new graduate course to be held in conjunction with an exhibition at the Smart Museum
- Chinese Independent Documentary Film
- $3,000 in curricular funding for the development of a new course in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations exposing students to documentary film practices in contemporary China and their effects on the entire documentary genre
- 20th Century Aesthetics and Application to Stage Design
- $4,864 in funding for the development of a new course exploring stage design in the 20th Century covering Victoriana to Modanna
- Shakespeare Lecture Course, Spring 2006
- $3,500 in funding for the development of an interactive website for students studying Shakespeare and for an in-class performance with local actors
- Viewing and Listening in the Nineteenth Century
- $5,000 in curricular funding for the development of a new course
- Art, Community, and Activism
- $3,480 in curricular funding for guest lecturers and travel expenses to experimental art spaces in Chicago
- Theories of Media and The Chicago School of Media Theory
- $4,500 to underwrite revisions to the curriculum
- Dramaturgies of Opera, Theatre, Dance, and Film
- $756 to subsidize purchase of tickets for students to city performance venues
- Early Music and Performance
- $3,500 in support of Newberry Consort residency/demonstration in conjunction with course