ENGL 2001-01 Introduction to Grant Proposal Writing | TuTh 12:30 – 1:45 | Courtmanche, Jason
Grant Writing will introduce you to the basics of grants and grant writing. It is open to students from all majors. We will explore your research interests, develop a proposal, identify possible sources of funding, review Requests for Proposals (RFPs), review successfully awarded grant proposals, talk with grant writers and other professionals who work in the field, and, finally, write, revise, and ultimately submit a grant proposal.
We will mostly explore opportunities available to students through the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), such as IDEA, SHARE, and SURF grants, and we will have guest speakers from OUR, the grants division of the CLAS Business Services Center, the UConn Foundation, and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), as well as fellow undergraduates who have been successful in their pursuit of grants. I will also try to connect students to faculty members with related interests.
Students in this course will engage in a lot of hands-on work—conducting research, working in small groups to share ideas, reading grant proposals as mentor texts, drafting and revising the texts of your own proposals, and giving and receiving feedback on your ideas and proposals.
There will be regularly collected and assessed writing assignments specific to each grant, but due dates may vary depending on the deadlines prescribed by the differing RFPs being pursued by members of the class.
In addition to the work of writing a grant, I will expect you to keep a weekly journal in which you write about the process. These journals will be where you take notes, explore ideas, draft your proposals, and reflect upon the process. I will collect and respond to these at key points throughout the course.
For more information, contact: Professor Courtmanche at Jason.courtmanche@uconn.edu