Course Design Grants to Refresh, Reboot, or Co-propose a Core capstone

Grants of $500 are available for faculty members who wish to propose, co-propose, refresh, or reboot a Core capstone. See the descriptions of these categories before applying. Funding is available for permanent Core capstones only and not for experimental Core capstones. Simply create a document with the information below and send it to the Executive Director of the Elon Core Curriculum and the Assistant Director of Integrative Core Capstones.

Information on the applicant

If more than one applicant, please provide information for each applicant.

Name

Elon email address

Your department

Your discipline (if different from department)

Type of grant you are seeking:

Refresh an existing Core capstone that you authored but haven’t taught recently

Reboot someone else’s Core capstone

Co-propose a Core capstone with one or more collaborators

If you are seeking refresh or reboot funding:

Course number and title

How frequently do you anticipate the course will be offered?

If you are not the original course author, please provide the following information:

  • Name of the original course author
  • Original author’s employment status, e.g. still teaches full-time at Elon, has retired, has left Elon, vel sim
  • Whether the original author still teaches this Core capstone
  • Whether you have discussed the course with the original author

If you are seeking funding to co-propose

How frequently do you anticipate the course will be offered?

Do you anticipate that each colleague will teach the course equally often, or will one person teach it more frequently?

Information on the course

Explain how the course promotes the mission of the Elon Core Curriculum.

Explain how the course promotes the two principles that guide that mission: ethical reasoning and personal & social responsibility.

Explain how the course promotes the following learning outcomes, which are required in all Core capstones because they promote the mission.

  • Research skills across disciplines.
  • Communication skills.
  • Problem-solving.

Indicate how the texts (readings, films, and so on) and assignments promote the above mission, principles, and learning outcomes.

Describe the writing-intensive nature of the course, explaining how it promotes (a) Writing to learn, for example via some form of journaling or discussion forum; AND (b) Writing as a citizen, aka writing for civic engagement, which generally involves a public genre.

Explain how the course is interdisciplinary, even if it is influenced by your disciplinary research.