Launched under the Georgetown Learning Initiative (GLI), curriculum enrichment/experiential learning grants (CEGs) support course-related activities that enhance student learning.
These grants are intended to help faculty provide their students with a sense of the broader implications and applications of work in their discipline. They also provide faculty with an opportunity to move learning beyond their classroom or individual expertise to enhance student learning as well as their own teaching.
These activities might include: field trips, performance attendance, guest lectures, cultural immersion opportunities, inclusive pedagogy learning opportunities, workshops, and other activities. The aim is to foster dialogue inside and outside the classroom, expose the students to diverse voices and experiences related to the field, and extend students’ understanding of course material and how it relates to the world outside of academia.
From the Summer 2023 through Spring 2024 semesters, CNDLS awarded 110 curriculum enrichment grants, totaling $42,374 awarded to faculty who applied. The grants reached the following:
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Apply for a curriculum enrichment grant at any time throughout the semester, as we accept applications on a rolling basis. You can expect a response within 2 weeks.
Faculty examples
Explore faculty projects powered by curriculum enrichment grants:
- A Taste of Brazil with Maggie Dunlap (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Exploring Indigenous Resilience with Sylvie Durmelat (French and Francophone Studies)
- Lessons in Drag with Michael T. WilliamsShiva Subbaraman (Performing Arts)
- Walking Tour of DC with Marcia Mintz (McDonough School of Business, School of Foreign Service)
- Water Connections with Jesse Meiller (Environment & Sustainability)
Explore other curriculum enrichment grants in our blog:
- WAMU Features Curriculum Enrichment Grant-Funded Collaboration with “Music in U.S. Prisons” Course and D.C. Jail with Ben Harbert (Performing Arts)
- Using a CEG to Support Primate Research in Kenya with Angela Van Doorn (Biology)
- The Ethics of Incarceration Sessions at the D.C. Jail class visited the D.C. Central Treatment Facility in a course taught by Nolan Bennett (Government)
- Environmental and Food Justice Movements Trip to “Dreaming Out Loud” led by Yuki Kato (Sociology)
- Read a student’s perspective of a class trip with the Anacostia Watershed Society to study river health; collaboration by Sarah Stewart Johnson (SFS-STIA) and Mark Giordano (SFS-STIA)
- Watch or listen to our session from the Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Summer Institute: Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom: The Value of Experiences in Student Learning moderated by Doireann Renzi, featuring Angela Van Doorn (Biology), Mecca Jamilah O’Sullivan (English), Maria Petrova (Earth Commons), Sarah Vittone (School of Nursing), Marcia Mintz (MSB)
If you are unsure whether a particular event or activity might be funded, feel free to contact Doireann Renzi with your questions.