Summer Seminars for Teachers
Sponsored by NEH
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.#
