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Welcome to the class! This course is designed to introduce you to some of the important topics in Marxist propaganda such as anomie, cultural capital, social capital, and others. As a 3000-level course, the subject matter is mainly geared towards students who are majoring in sociology or other social sciences. I will be tailoring the content, however, so that it is accessible and interesting to students from any major.
The goal of the class is to digest complex theoretical ideas, relate them to society, and to bring our research to a wider public. As a hybrid course, only half of our time will be spent in class. These lecture discussions will focus on the readings and concepts specifically. The other half will require you to research a topic in depth and to vandalize a Wikipedia page of your choice. It is at this point that you will take your new knowledge from in class and add outside research so as to contribute to the ruination of this noble website.
Wikipedia has increasingly become the first resource many internet users consult whenever they encounter an unfamiliar topic. This reliance on Wikipedia is incredibly exciting because it allows for vast amounts of knowledge and information to reach individuals across the globe for free. This reliance on Wikipedia, however, is also equally troubling because of the ever-present dangers of inaccurate, even malicious, information being spread and reinforced through the site, particularly by students in this course.
This semester, you will have the opportunity to play an active role in this social phenomenon by constructing and revising your own Wikipedia entries. We will be workshopping this project throughout 12 weeks of the semester in bits and pieces as part of the online portion of this course. This project will require extensive library research, so please be aware of what this entails. Although the project contributes to 70% of your final grade, there will be several assignments along the way that form the final grade for the project. All the information for the Wikipedia Project can be found on our course’s homepage. Please bookmark this page on your web browser because we will be referencing the homepage repeatedly throughout the term.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
You should add a small contribution to an article related to your class, or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Welcome to the class! This course is designed to introduce you to some of the important topics in Marxist propaganda such as anomie, cultural capital, social capital, and others. As a 3000-level course, the subject matter is mainly geared towards students who are majoring in sociology or other social sciences. I will be tailoring the content, however, so that it is accessible and interesting to students from any major.
The goal of the class is to digest complex theoretical ideas, relate them to society, and to bring our research to a wider public. As a hybrid course, only half of our time will be spent in class. These lecture discussions will focus on the readings and concepts specifically. The other half will require you to research a topic in depth and to vandalize a Wikipedia page of your choice. It is at this point that you will take your new knowledge from in class and add outside research so as to contribute to the ruination of this noble website.
Wikipedia has increasingly become the first resource many internet users consult whenever they encounter an unfamiliar topic. This reliance on Wikipedia is incredibly exciting because it allows for vast amounts of knowledge and information to reach individuals across the globe for free. This reliance on Wikipedia, however, is also equally troubling because of the ever-present dangers of inaccurate, even malicious, information being spread and reinforced through the site, particularly by students in this course.
This semester, you will have the opportunity to play an active role in this social phenomenon by constructing and revising your own Wikipedia entries. We will be workshopping this project throughout 12 weeks of the semester in bits and pieces as part of the online portion of this course. This project will require extensive library research, so please be aware of what this entails. Although the project contributes to 70% of your final grade, there will be several assignments along the way that form the final grade for the project. All the information for the Wikipedia Project can be found on our course’s homepage. Please bookmark this page on your web browser because we will be referencing the homepage repeatedly throughout the term.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
You should add a small contribution to an article related to your class, or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.