Complete the application form below and send it in an email with the subject line “Curriculum Development Grant Application” to Liliana.Milkova@yale.edu by 5:00 pm on September 23, 2024. Direct questions to the same address. Award notifications will be sent by/on September 27, 2024.
Through a partnership between the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning and with the support of the Provost’s Office, Yale faculty in STEM fields and medicine are invited to apply for curriculum development grants of $1,500 (awarded as research funds) to develop at least one Gallery-based curricular session which focuses on cultivating advanced critical observational skills (the ability to recognize, analyze and interpret the complex ways in which images convey meaning) or other skills or topics related to the faculty member’ teaching practice or discipline.
The goal of the grant program is to introduce faculty to the museum as a unique, multidisciplinary learning environment and equip them with visual-analytical tools and innovative pedagogies to apply in their own teaching and research. To this end, grant recipients will be required to:
1) attend a two-hour pedagogy workshop at the Gallery in October 2024 (date TBD)
2) to develop in consultation with Gallery staff a one-page lesson plan that is both specific to the Gallery visit (including a small selection of art works and activities/questions for in-gallery engagement and discussion) and can be applied more broadly (emphasizing the development of disciplinary skills or habits of mind such as critical observation skills, pattern recognition, emotional recognition, and empathy) across courses and can be utilized by other faculty
3) based on the developed lesson plan, lead on their own a museum session for a course they are offering in the 2024–25 academic year
Grant recipients will have the option to request an observation with feedback of their museum session.
The grants are open to all Yale instructors of record in STEM and medical fields, including tenured and tenure-track faculty, clinical instructional faculty, lecturers, lectors, and part-time acting instructors (PTAIs) who are teaching in the 2024–25 academic year. Junior faculty are particularly encouraged to apply.
The 2024–25 Curriculum Development Grants for Yale Faculty in STEM And Medicine are generously supported through the Provost’s Office and the YangTse Foundation Fund for programs fostering the interdisciplinary appreciation of art and architecture across the academic curriculum.
