Summer Grant-Writing Course for Faculty and Advanced Graduate Students
Dr. Joseph Fagan, Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor
PSCL 453 CRITICAL THINKING IN RESEARCH
JUNE 12 - July 26 (7 weeks)
TUES and THURS 2:00-4:30 p.m.
Room: TBA
The goal of Dr. Fagan's workshop is to facilitate a statement of your research ideas in the form of a grant proposal. Through exercises and discussion, your ideas will be elicited, refined, and conveyed in speech and in writing. A first draft of your grant will be critiqued. The critiques will provide a basis for preparing a final proposal. All readings will be provided.
Information on how to apply and register is found at the bottom of this page.
This course requires the consent of the instructor. Please see below for directions for requesting permission through SIS. Permission requests must be processed through SIS, not via email to Professor Fagan.
Faculty from all the major academic divisions at Case who have taken Dr. Fagan's course have brought in some $45 million in total costs over a 22-year period. Dr. Fagan has been awarded grants from various divisions of the NIH, the NSF, the Edison Biotechnology project, the Spencer Foundation, SBIR's 1 and 2, and research contracts from private industry. He has served as a grant reviewer for numerous public and private granting agencies. Finally, he served as chair of the Institutional Review Board at Case for 22 years. In that capacity he reviewed some 7,000 research proposals.
If you have questions, please contact Joseph Fagan at <jff@case.edu>.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Class 1: Overview, General Approach, Topics
Class 2: Cycle of science, forms overview, writing plan. Click HERE for current PHS grant forms.
Class 3: Working from theory, methods, results and aims.
Topic statement due (with 3 articles and a list of the 3 references)
Class 4: Background, significance, project summary, style, "Dear Grandma," intro to talks. Writing plans due.
Class 5: Letter to Grandma due and talks begin
Class 6: Talks continue
Class 7: Proposal preparation
Class 8: Proposal preparation
Class 9: Complete proposal due with exchange of papers (3 copies); in class editing by reviewers, scheduling of individual site visits
Class 10: Individual site visits (in classroom)
Class 11: Individual site visits (in classroom)
Class 12: Final proposal preparation
Class 13: Final proposal preparation
Class 14: FINAL REVISED PROPOSAL DUE 2:00 P.M.
How to Register:
Benelect-eligible full-time CWRU faculty may receive three-credit hours of tuition waiver in the summer.
Summer 2012 tuition for PSCL 453 is $4461 ($1487 per credit hour).
Faculty and all others not enrolled in a CWRU degree program need to apply as "non-degree students" through the School of Graduate Studies. Information for non-degree seeking students can be found at: http://gradstudies.case.edu/prospect/nondegree.html
School of Graduate Studies is located at
Tomlinson Hall, Room 203.
(216) 368-4390
Registration for graduate students enrolled in a CWRU degree program begins March 26. Non-degree graduate students may register beginning April 16.
For instructions on how to request permission to enroll, please download these instructions. Follow directions for "Consent Required."
For CWRU Faculty who wish to apply for a tuition waiver:
Once accepted by the School of Graduate Studies, faculty should fill out the Tuition Waiver and Tax Exemption forms, attach a copy of your class schedule, and bring them to Human Resources in Crawford Hall between June 1 and July 1 (the last day to submit forms). You may also fax your forms to (216) 368-3582. Graduate tuition benefits are taxable if not related to your job. However, the first $5250 per year is tax-free. If the course is job-related, a Tax Exemption form is available. See links below.