This professional development seminar, or Proseminar, focuses on major scholarships, fellowships, and grants applications. It is designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the humanities, qualitative social sciences, and education. The Proseminar is designed as a workshop, and has been developed over two decades of teaching and consulting at multiple institutions, in addition to insights from past and recent award recipients and foundation referees. Drawing upon the creative writing workshop models attention to genre, style, and the revision process, as well as the research seminars practice of meta-critical interrogation, Proseminar activities are designed to optimize each component of an application.

For those who declared in Fall 2023 or later, this course fulfills the following subject area requirement for the English major:
-Literature Across Disciplines