Faculty Course Enhancement Grants
The CES offers annual competition for faculty course enhancement grants. Several grants, in the amount of $3000 each, will be awarded each year. Course enhancement includes, but is not limited to, the incorporation of new technologies (such as video conferencing or increased web content), broadening the scope of the course to make it more interdisciplinary, or creating a "capstone" experience add-on unit that incorporates a short study abroad visit to Europe. We will consider proposals in the following two categories. (1) Courses focused on contemporary European subjects. These are courses in which at least 75% of course time is related to Europe or European subjects broadly defined. (2) Courses focused specifically on the European Union. These are courses in which at least 20% (preferably more) of the coursework is specifically and directly related to the European Union itself, for example its history, evolution, institution, politics, policies, current developments, and relations with the outside world. Next year's competition will be announced in Fall 2008, with a competition deadline in early Spring 2009.
Winners of the AY 2007-08 competition
- Mary Watt (RLL)
- Mary Padua (Landscape Architecture)
- Maria Stoilkova (Anthropology and CES)
- Abdoulaye Kane (Anthropology and African Studies)
Winners of the AY 2006-07 competition
- Geoffrey Giles (History) EUH 3033 The History of the Holocaust.

- Ralf Remshardt (Theater) THE 4930 Contemporary European Theater
Winners of the AY 2005-06 competition
- Peter Bergmann (History) Nationalism and the Idea of Europe

- Regina Bures (Sociology) Urban Sociology

Winners of the AY 2004-05 competition
- Ewa Wampuszyc (CES) PLW 4905 Cultural Transition in Contemporary Poland

- Christopher Caes (CES-GSS) PLT 3930 Polish Science Fiction and Fantasy

- Geoffrey Giles (History) HIS 4956 The Sites of German History in Munich

Winners of the AY 2003-04 competition
- Ido Oren (Political Science) Berlin Study Tour Capstone for INR 4083 War and Peace in World Politics

- Galina Rylkova (GSS) The 20th Century Through Slavic Eyes

- Mary Watt (RLL) Itineraries in Italian Cinema Capstone for ITT 3521 Italian Cinema

- Donna Cohen (Architecture) Pescara Charette