Course Development grants support interdisciplinary teaching and innovative approaches to active and collaborative learning. The following extra-departmental, collaborative, or single-department course directions are meant to be suggestive rather than exclusive.

• Courses focusing on fundamental themes of human life or problems of society, and on collaborative approaches to them by several disciplines or ways of thinking not found in existing disciplines.
• Courses considering various relationships among different modes of thought and exploring the possibilities of integrative treatment of these diverse ways of thinking.
• Innovations in teaching that promote active learning by students individually or in groups.

Current Course Development grants provide support for:

History 197.50. Indian/Black Individuals and Communities in the Americas

E!Health: Computers, the Internet and Health Care Delivery

AC161-05. The Sixties Without Apology

EL 0176. Inside and Outside: Poetry, Mind, World

Concepts of Race in Science and Public Health

Grants of up to $2,500 may be used for expenses such as student assistance, research, travel, books, laboratory equipment, computer software preparation (note: not to include computer purchase/ hardware). A brief report is required at the end of the academic year.

Proposals for Course Development grants should include:

- Projected syllabus
- Brief bibliography
- Course title and brief description
- Names of faculty participants
- Budget description with major spending categories
- Objectives, subject, teaching strategies
- Reasons why the Wayland Collegium is an appropriate funding source

Applications (10 copies) should be submitted to:
James Valles
Office of the Dean of the College, Box 1828

Deadline: March 3, 2008 If you wish to discuss a grant, please contact James Valles