Lone Star College-Online has been awarded a nearly $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to transform its U.S. History curriculum, according to a news release.
What to know
The NEH grant, valued at $148,594, is one of only a few humanities grants awarded each year to community colleges, according to a news release.
Professor Chris Davis will lead the three-year project to introduce thematic tracks within popular U.S. History survey courses, allowing students to specialize in subfields that align with their interests and career goals.
Davis collaborated on the grant with colleagues from other campuses and external contacts from Texas Southern University and San Jacinto College, according to the news release.
"I had this idea of creating tracks, different modules and different assignments that students can self-select. For example, nursing students or healthcare professionals might want to look at U.S. History through the lens of health and medicine, focusing more on pandemics and vaccines and how they have informed this subject while still covering the basics," Davis said.
Stay tuned
The project is expected to start in the 2025-26 academic year, with a larger pilot planned for the following year.
More information is available at www.lonestar.edu.
