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 due September 30, 2025. New courses due December 1, 2025.  Course enhancements due February 1, 2026. Please see the timeline below. 
 
Award amounts: Please see the descriptions below. 

Timelime 
 
1: Interest/Intent Survey
Submit survey August 1-September 30, 2025 
 
https://gmuchss.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9ZY43IoAxTAw2Im

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

2:  Existing course enhancement or New Course Development 
October 1, 2025-February 1, 2025 
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. 
 
3. 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 

Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
$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, 2026

 
$1000

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

Submit through your department’s curriculum approval process

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025

 

 

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

Questions? chsscurr@gmu.edu