HON 3499: Preparing for Competitive Awards

0 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: By permission of department.
This course is designed to prepare students to operate at advanced levels as academically-prepared professionals in their various fields. Students in the course will learn how to navigate the world of major competitive awards as an arena which they will inhabit in their future careers as researchers, teachers, and professionals.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Self-present in a professional manner, in writing and in person, in a way that conveys confidence and clarity, using economy of language and appropriate terminology.

2. Communicate professional identity, career aspirations, and personal story within the types of documents usually required of major scholarship, fellowship, and/or grant applications: personal narratives, research statements, grant proposals, budgets, etc..

3. Review the websites and materials of a particular funding organization and thereby glean a clear picture of what kinds of individuals, institutions, and/or initiatives that organization seeks to fund.

4. Articulate best practices for professional self-presentation in prose writing, CV and resume construction, interviews.