These residential summer seminars & institutes give teachers opportunities for intensive study of important texts & topics in the humanities. The seminars & institutes encourage discussion of humanities topics in scholarly communities & promote scholarship in the humanities for teachers at all levels.
Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports a variety of study opportunities in the humanities for schoolteachers. Seminars & institutes are national (open to those who teach American K--12 students), residential, & rigorous. Designed to strengthen the quality of humanities instruction available to American students, they are led by some of the nation's outstanding scholars & take place at major colleges & universities & archival facilities across the country & abroad.
Topics considered among the 31 seminars & institutes for school teachers offered in the summer of 2004 include American history & culture, such as constitutionalism & the American Revolution, regional studies, & the development of American song; literary studies of Petrarch, Cervantes, Balzac, & Tolkien; & a broad range of programs in world history & culture, including programs using Latin, French, Spanish, & Italian.
Participants receive from the National Endowment for the Humanities a stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute.
Stipends are $2,800 for four weeks, $3,250 for five weeks, & $3,700 for six weeks & are intended to help cover travel costs & living expenses, as well as books & miscellaneous expenses. Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports a variety of study opportunities in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates. Seminars & institutes are national, residential, & rigorous. Designed to strengthen the quality of humanities teaching & scholarship, they are led by some of the nation's outstanding scholars & take place at major colleges & universities & archival facilities across the United States & abroad.#