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 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