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Course name
Women, Human Rights and Global Transformation
Institution
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education
Instructor
Leigh L Graham
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Women's Studies
Course dates
2023-09-12 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-12-05 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
12


Women, Human Rights and Global Transformations is a seminar style, graduate course that engages international issues and interdisciplinary research from diverse fields, including education, development, anthropology, economics, STEM, and law. This course aims to address contemporary global problems affecting women and girls and the roles women and girls play in addressing these problems through resistance, education, social movements, politics, and art.

Topics under discussion include conflict and peacebuilding, literacy and education, health and bodily sovereignty, and economic precarity and inequality– with the objective that individual student work and rigorous collective class engagement identifies sites of both vulnerability and hope while highlighting modes and mechanism for solidarity and social change.

The course is designed to bring together voices of scholars, activists, artists, advocates, and philosophers who offer theoretical perspectives and on women’s and girls’ educational development and social action as sources of global transformation. We also address current human rights movements, focusing specifically on modes of alliance that are characterized by interdependence across race, gender, sexuality, and nationality.

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 18 September 2023
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:

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 - Wikipedia assignment blog

Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 25 September 2023
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Assignment - Choose possible topics

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Assignment - Make a small edit

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 2 October 2023
Assignment - Copyedit an article
In class - Discussion
Assignment - Finalize your topic and find sources
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 9 October 2023
Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 16 October 2023
Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

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

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.

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 23 October 2023
Assignment - Continue improving 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.

In class - Discussion

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 30 October 2023
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!

In class - Discussion
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