The National Endowment for the Humanities offers grants of up to $38,000 to support the development of a new undergraduate course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question.
For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions. The application deadline is September 10, 2015.
PROGRAM DETAILS
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports up to four faculty members in the preparation of a new course on a fundamental concern of human life as addressed by the humanities. This question-driven course would encourage undergraduates and teachers to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential ideas, works, and thinkers over the centuries.
Enduring questions persist across historical eras, regions, and world cultures. They inform intellectual, ethical, artistic, and religious traditions and engage thoughtful people from all walks of life. They transcend time and place but are also relevant to our lives today. Enduring questions have more than one plausible or compelling answer, allow for dialogue across generations, and inspire genuine intellectual pluralism.
An Enduring Questions course may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities (for example, astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, or psychology), so long as humanities sources are central to the course.