Research-Intensive Course Mini-Grant Application

If you are interested in applying for a Research-Intensive Course Mini-Grant for the Spring 2021 semester, fill out the application below before 11:59 pm on Monday, November 16, 2020.

Note that you will not be able to save your answers before submitting, so you might save your answers in a separate document so you don't lose your work.

Instructor Information

Your first name: *

Your last name: *

Your email: *

Your department: *

Course Information

Provide information below about the course for which you are wanting to develop a larger research or creative component.

Course number (i.e. BIOL 100): *

Course name (i.e. Introduction to Biology):

Anticipated number of undergraduate students enrolled:

Provide a brief overall description of this course (~2-3 sentences):

Plans for Revision

Describe your initial plans for revising this course to either 1) include a larger research or creative component or 2) provide more scaffolding for student research skill development. These plans should be developed and specific enough so we can evaluate the overall impact that the mini-grant might have on student learning. We expect, however, that plans will evolve as you participate in workshops and share ideas with other grant recipients.

1. Fill out either section 1a OR 1b, depending on whether you are proposing to improve an existing project or create a new research/creative project for your class.

1a. Expanding or improving a current research/creative project:

Describe how you have implemented the research/creative project that you would like to revise in the past. What has worked well about this assignment in the past, and what areas of student learning would you like to see improved? Provide some details about your plans for revision.

1a. If available, please upload a copy of your current assignment:

Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: txt rtf html pdf doc docx odt ppt pptx odp xls xlsx ods xml.

1b. Creating a new research/creative project:

Describe the proposed research/creative project that you would like to integrate into the course:

2. Describe how this project will challenge students beyond the normal research/creative requirements for students at their academic level or in your major:

3. List the learning outcome(s) that you hope to acheive by integrating this research/creative project into your class:

(Optional) Include any additional information that we should consider along with your application:

Background for Workshops

To help us design workshops that will be most helpful to participants, please provide answers to the questions below. These answers will not be considered as part of the evaluation of applications, only for our planning purposes.

Have you experimented with incorporating research into classes in the past?

Yes

If so, what have you learned about what worked and where students struggled?

How familiar are you with principles of teaching & learning, such as backwards design, writing learning outcomes, etc.?

Not familiar

Somewhat familiar; I know these terms, but don't always use them when I design a course.

Very familiar; I use these principles every time I plan a course.

List any particular topics or challenges you would be interested in discussing at a workshop if you were selected for this grant:

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Research-Intensive Course Mini-Grant Application

Instructor Information

Course Information

Plans for Revision

Background for Workshops

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