Resources for Developing a Competitive Proposal

In order to help you develop a competitive proposal, we have provided a number of resources that may help you think about how you want to organize the 10-week plan and finals session for the proposed course that you will submit as part of your application.

The goal should be not to teach merely about anti-racism/anti-Black racism but to teach about anti-racism/anti-Black racism within specific disciplines.

As an example, you might propose a course about anti-racism approaches and texts in English or History that are a part of required coverage for all undergraduates. Or you might conceive of a course in the sciences or humanities or higher education or pubic policy where the focus is helping your peers to learn about anti-racist approaches and materials. The goal is not to spend the course highlighting the racism that may exist, but rather to provide alternative ways to approach and understand topics and materials and to create and use teaching tools and exercises to provide students with critical skills, consciousness, and resources of knowledge based on anti-racism/anti-Black racism approaches in their education.

As you work with your faculty mentor to consider options for framing the course proposal, here are some resources that you may find helpful: