Grant Writing and Administration

Catalog description

This course acclimates social work doctoral students to grant-writing culture. Students will understand the important role that private and public grant funding plays in the development, evaluation, and provision of social work services. Through a hands-on grant proposal assignment, readings, guest speakers, and class activities, students will learn how to identify a funding need, distinguish between different types of funding sources, search for potential funders, communicate successfully with grant officers, and write all components of a grant narrative. Students will also learn how to seek funding for their dissertation research. Restriction(s): For PhD students only.