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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