HTLab: Course Transformation Grants (register by 3/1/22)

Registration is required to attend this lab. Please register by Tuesday, March 1st. 

Do you have a dream course? Have you considered how you might reinvent your course if you had the funds to do it? Is there a community partnership you’d like to foster or an assignment sequence that could transform the way your students experience your class? 

In this Humanities Teaching Lab, we invite you to learn more about the HTLabs Course Transformation Support Grants, offered through the Dresher Center for the Humanities’s Inclusion Imperative program. This grant offers flexible, movable resources to transform our humanities classrooms and, specifically, to address issues of race, equity, inclusion, and justice. Funds may be used for

• Syllabus redesign

• Faculty and student training

• Digital and other tools

• Classroom technical support

• Speakers or consultants

• Stipends for community participants

• Other resources for community-engaged pedagogy

HTLabs Course Transformation Support Grants are open to all full-time UMBC faculty (one application per person) who teach courses with humanities content. Applicants may request up to $4,000 in support. A total of two grants will be made for courses to be taught in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023. For more information, visit the Grant Announcement page. 

In this HTLab participants will:

• Hear from recent grant recipients about the projects, innovations and opportunities the grant enables 

• Learn how funds can be used to support pedagogical innovation

• Participate in a Q&A with grant recipients and Inclusion Imperative staff 

Applicants should also plan to discuss their ideas with Denise Meringolo (ddm@umbc.edu), Dresher Center Acting Director and Inclusion Imperative Program Director, and/or Rachel Brubaker (rbruba1@umbc), Dresher Center Assistant Director for Grants and Program Development.

Questions? Contact Lloyd Ekpe, Inclusion Imperative Associate: lekpe1@umbc.edu. If you are unable to attend but would like to access a recording of the workshop, please contact Lloyd.