Course details

Name: ENWR - 250

Title: ST: GRANT AND PROPOSAL WRITING

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
Effective grant writing skills are becoming an essential part of every student's life, and increase the value an employee brings to just about any employer. Writing a successful grant proposal is a delicate blend of creativity and technical know-how. It requires basic aptitude, content knowledge, writing proficiency, strong research skills, ingenuity, organization, and persistence. This course will provide students with the background necessary to develop a competitive funding proposal. Lectures will focus on:
- Helpful tools and resources;
- How to identify potential funding sources;
- How to read and understand proposal guidelines and requests for proposals (RFP);
- Basic components of an application;
- Strategies for developing a proposal;
- Writing objectives;
- Preparation and justification of budgets;
- Procedures for grants submission and grants start-up;
- Protocols for use of human subjects;
- The grant review process;
- Writing cover letters;
- Preparing a curriculum vitae.

Course Objectives: This course will provide an introduction to the basic skills, principles, and techniques of successful grant writing. Students completing the course will:
- Understand the fundamental components of a grant proposal such as the abstract or summary, background and significance, specific aims/goals and objectives, project design and methods, sustainability, assessment, broader impacts, dissemination, budget, budget justification, and cover letter as well as the overall grant submission process;
- Learn how to locate available funding opportunities;
- Develop the skills needed to develop competitive grant proposals;
- Prepare a complete grant proposal to an agency of their choice.

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 4:00 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• ()

Teaching Faculty: Natale Dana (nataled)

Is course canceled: No