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Course name
Transnational Women's Cinema - Winter 2022
Institution
University of Michigan
Instructor
Swapnil Rai
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Film Television Media
Course dates
2022-01-11 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-04-29 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


What does women’s cinema signify? Is it cinema created exclusively by women, for women? Or is it cinema the puts women at its center? Concurrently, do these narratives about women privilege one type of woman over another? More importantly, how do we understand and interrogate these questions within non-western and global contexts? This course will delve into the multiple subjectivities, socio-cultural geographies, media practices and political activism that is folded into the category called ‘women’s cinema’. Beginning with an exploration of the 1970s “cine-feminism” that focused on women’s filmmaking and political activism, we will expand our discussion to transnational contexts and explore how feminist politics advocated by female and male filmmakers influence an understanding of women-oriented issues, forms, and values in circulation. We will examine women’s films produced within national and transnational geo-cultural spaces posing questions about national versus exilic or postcolonial auteur subjectivities. In doing so we will analyze the films’ aesthetics, institutional context of production, global circulation and situate them within the larger theoretical framework of feminist film theory, female vs. male authorship, postcolonial studies and transnational feminist scholarship. This course primarily focuses on Women’s cinema from the global south such as South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

Timeline

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 January 2022   |   Thursday, 27 January 2022
In class - Course introduction
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 1 February 2022   |   Thursday, 3 February 2022
In class - Evaluate Wikipedia

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 8 February 2022   |   Thursday, 10 February 2022
Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Assignment - Choose possible topics

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 15 February 2022   |   Thursday, 17 February 2022
Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Films

In class - Library Instruction - Finding Library Resources

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 22 February 2022   |   Thursday, 24 February 2022
Assignment - Exercise
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 1 March 2022   |   Thursday, 3 March 2022
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Assignment - Add to an article

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 8 March 2022   |   Thursday, 10 March 2022
Assignment - Keep drafting your article
In class - In-Class Editing Session

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 15 March 2022   |   Thursday, 17 March 2022
Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 22 March 2022   |   Thursday, 24 March 2022
Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 29 March 2022   |   Thursday, 31 March 2022
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 5 April 2022   |   Thursday, 7 April 2022
Assignment - Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 14

Course meetings
Tuesday, 12 April 2022   |   Thursday, 14 April 2022
Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Week 15

Course meetings
Tuesday, 19 April 2022   |   Thursday, 21 April 2022
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