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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
20090915-AQ
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jul 06, 2009
Creation Date:
Jul 06, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Sep 15, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Sep 15, 2009
Archive Date:
Oct 15, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
$25,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
45.163
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Promotion of the Humanities_Professional Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
National Endowment for the Humanities
Description
The Enduring Questions grant program supports a faculty member’s development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduate students and a teacher to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate.
What is the good life?
What is freedom? Happiness?
What is friendship?
What is beauty?
Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it?
What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?
How do science and ethics relate to one another?
Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Good and evil?
What is good government?
Enduring questions are, to an overarching degree, predisciplinary. They are questions to which no discipline or field or profession can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the academic disciplines themselves. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment.
An Enduring Questions grant supports the development of a new undergraduate humanities course that must be taught at least twice during the grant period. The grant supports the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and assessing the course. It may also be used for ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community, such as visits to museums and artistic or cultural events. An Enduring Questions course may be taught by a faculty member from any department or discipline in the humanities or by a faculty member outside the humanities (e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), so long as humanities sources are central to the course.
If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement
electronically, please contact:
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8463
enduringquestions@neh.gov
Synopsis Modification History
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