This university-wide grant program supports faculty members in developing and teaching new undergraduate courses focused on ‘enduring questions’ within the humanities. The Enduring Questions grant aims to foster intellectual community by encouraging students and teachers to engage deeply with fundamental questions addressed by influential thinkers across centuries. These predisciplinary questions, such as ‘What is the good life?’ or ‘What is freedom?’, allow for rich intergenerational dialogue. The grant funds course design, preparation, and assessment, potentially covering activities like museum visits that enhance faculty-student interaction. Courses developed must be taught at least twice, and faculty from any discipline are eligible, provided humanities sources are central to the curriculum.
Opportunity ID: 48337
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20090915-AQ |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Humanities |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 45.163 — Promotion of the Humanities_Professional Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 06, 2009 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 15, 2009 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 15, 2009 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 15, 2009 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $25,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | State governments Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education County governments Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education Special district governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) City or township governments |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Description: | The Enduring Questions grant program supports a faculty members development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduate students and a teacher to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate. What is the good life? What is freedom? Happiness? What is friendship? What is beauty? Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it? What is the relationship between humans and the natural world? How do science and ethics relate to one another? Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Good and evil? What is good government? Enduring questions are, to an overarching degree, predisciplinary. They are questions to which no discipline or field or profession can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the academic disciplines themselves. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in todays undergraduate environment. An Enduring Questions grant supports the development of a new undergraduate humanities course that must be taught at least twice during the grant period. The grant supports the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and assessing the course. It may also be used for ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community, such as visits to museums and artistic or cultural events. An Enduring Questions course may be taught by a faculty member from any department or discipline in the humanities or by a faculty member outside the humanities (e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), so long as humanities sources are central to the course. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities Room 302 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8463 Email:enduringquestions@neh.gov |
Version History
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Division of Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 302 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8463 Email: enduringquestions@neh.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.163 | PKG00012970 | Jul 07, 2009 | Sep 15, 2009 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
48337 SF424_Short-1.0.pdf
48337 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms-1.0.pdf
48337 Attachments-1.0.pdf
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