AI in the Humanities and Social Sciences
CHSS Curriculum Enhancement Mini-Grant
AI in the Humanities and Social Sciences
CHSS is committed to providing students with a suite of AI opportunities for learning and engaging with AI topics across an interdisciplinary curriculum. The College is therefore launching a coordinated effort to generate sustainable curriculum across disciplines and interdisciplinary fields in the social sciences and humanities by offering mini-grants for full-time faculty to enhance currently existing courses and create new courses that address, interrogate, crucially position, evaluate, and use AI to prepare students at the undergraduate and graduate level with 21st century knowledge and skills. We are seeking proposals for course development and enhancement in areas including, but far from limited to, the following (in all disciplines and interdisciplinary fields) in the humanities and social sciences:
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- AI, data literacy
- Use of AI tools
- Incorporation Into research and methods courses across fields, disciplines
- Role of AI in society
- Past/Future of AI
- Interdisciplinarity of/Interdisciplinary approaches to AI
- Data: multiple aspects, disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches
- Information: multiple aspects, disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches
- AI as technology
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Eligibility: All CHSS full-time faculty
Deadlines: Response to interest survey due June 15, 2024. Courses due November 30, 2024. Please see the timeline below.
Award amounts: $500-$1000; Please see the descriptions below.
Timelime
Stage 1: Interest/Intent Survey
Submit survey May 1-June 15, 2024
https://gmuchss.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9ZY43IoAxTAw2Im
Stage 2: Existing course enhancement or New Course Development
June 15, 2024-November 30, 2024
Submit enhanced syllabi: chsscurr@gmu.edu
Submit new course proposals through your home department’s curriculum approval process. This process will take courses through to their final catalog approvals in Undergraduate or Graduate Council.
Participate in workshops, panels, and other discussion fora/faculty interest groups related to AI teaching and curriculum (ongoing)
Award Categories
$500 | To transform an existing course to contain up to 30% AI -related content | Submit old and revised syllabus to chsscurr@gmu.edu by November 30, 2024 |
$750 | To transform an existing course to contain up to 50% AI-related content. | Submit old and revised syllabus to chsscurr@gmu.edu by November 30, 2024 |
$1000 | To create a new course with at least 50% AI-related content | Submit through your department’s curriculum approval process by November 30, 2024 |
Note: Payments of awards will be made upon confirmation of completed work.
Questions? chsscurr@gmu.edu