Grant Writing for Graduate Students

This grant writing course is an elective, 2-credit class for second-year graduate students who have selected labs for their dissertation work. The course aims to help students develop grant writing skills through 1) classroom instruction, 2) reading and critiquing grant applications, 3) writing a draft grant proposal, and 4) responding to critiques and revising the proposal. Although this is an elective course, one needs to be aware that serious commitment is essential to success as most writing and reading are done outside classes.