The Lang Center supports faculty, students, and staff with advice and guidance, space for meetings and events, transportation resources, as well as funding for projects, internships, and curricular design. The Lang Center encourages faculty, staff, and students to be involved with surrounding communities both locally and globally, for mutual benefit and reciprocally enriching relationships.

While the Lang Center focuses on student centered projects, there are two faculty oriented grant opportunities:

Curriculum Development Grants:

Curriculum Development Grants support courses that connect students to external communities in direct ways through creation of new courses or enhancement of existing courses. Funds may be used for expenses of developing and/or offering the courses, as well as for costs of re-offering a previously developed course.

The Aydelotte Foundation supports opportunities that wouldn't otherwise have a means of support at the College. The Aydelotte Foundation is particularly interested in initiatives that create a space for faculty learning and engagement; that initiate rigorous and creative conversation and experimentation on the liberal arts; and/or that generally advance liberal arts education in the world at large. Learn more about the Aydelotte Foundation and its mission.

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The recipients of Swarthmore's second round of Digital Humanities Curricular Development Grants will teach students to study the role of virtual reality in the fields of crisis journalism and humanitarianism, construct digital exhibitions on the history of Spanish literature, learn to teach digital literacies, analyze contemporary representations of Latinx culture in digital media and present those analyses in public digital forms, learn linguistic corpus analysis methods using COCA, analyze social media using digital sociology methods, create Omeka exhibitions on magical books, learn to write for online platforms, and investigate the possibilities of using computational text analysis to study Jane Austen. Open to faculty teaching classes in any department or discipline, the grants support experimentation in and development of pedagogy that engages digital or computational tools, platforms, or thinking to do humanities work and/or draw on the insights of the humanities and humanistic social sciences to help students think about the effects of computation and digital tools and platforms on our academic work and everyday lives. Funded projects range in scope from single assignments to full reworkings of a course’s trajectory, and involve collaboration with librarians, academic technologists, and language learning experts.