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:

- - - 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

Eligibility: All CHSS full-time faculty

Deadlines: Response to interest survey and receive the "go ahead" before proceeding with your course development.

Fall 2026 Award Cycle

1. Complete Interest/Intent Survey. Submit interest survey now through September 30, 2026 for Fall cycle

CHSS AI course development or enhancement

Note: Please wait for the "go-ahead" before developing new courses.

2. New courses due to college-level curriculum committee by December 1, 2026 (meaning they have passed program and department level committees)

3. Course enhancements due by February 1, 2027. Submit enhanced syllabi: chsscurr@gmu.edu

Spring 2027 Award Cycle

1. Complete Interest/Intent Survey. Submit interest survey for Spring 2027 cycle through December 15, 2026.

CHSS AI course development or enhancement

Note: Please wait for the "go-ahead" before developing new courses.

2. New courses due to college-level curriculum committee by February 15, 2027 (meaning they have passed program and department level committees)

3. Course enhancements due by April 15, 2027. Submit enhanced syllabi: chsscurr@gmu.edu

Award amounts: Please see the descriptions below.

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

Deadline: Feb 1 (Fall); April 15 (Spring)

$750

To transform an existing course to contain up to 50% AI-related content.

Submit old and revised syllabus to chsscurr@gmu.edu

Deadline: Feb 1 (Fall); April 15 (Spring)

$1000

To create a new course with at least 50% AI-related content

Submit through your department’s curriculum approval process

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2026 (Fall); February 15, 2027 (Spring)

Note: Payments of awards will be made upon confirmation of completed work.

Questions? chsscurr@gmu.edu