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Course name
Women Making History -- The Penn Museum and the Centennial 2020
Institution
University of Pennsylvania
Instructor
Heather Sharkey
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
World History, Anthropology, Gender and Women's Studies
Course dates
2020-01-22 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-04-28 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
14


The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which declared that the right of citizens to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”. To mark this centennial – to both celebrate it and critically assess its impact on American society – we will investigate the history of women at the Penn Museum as archaeologists, ethnographers, epigraphers, philanthropists, and more. At the same time, we will examine material in the Penn Museum that women collected, donated, or studied. Our goal will be to produce scholarship, based on original research, for broader public forums.

Sponsored primarily by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, our seminar will focus heavily on western Asia, southeastern Europe, and North Africa – all zones that scholars have variously associated with the Near East or Middle East, and where the Penn Museum has been active since its foundation in 1887. To situate the Penn Museum and its collections within a global and comparative frame, we will also study select women who made major scholarly contributions to other parts of the world such as the Americas. Among the figures we will study are Sarah Yorke Stevenson (Egypt), Katharine Woolley (Mesopotamia [Iraq]), Harriet Boyd Hawes (Ottoman Crete and Greece), Florence Shotridge (Alaska), Zelia Nuttall (Mexico and Russia), and Tatiana Proskouriakoff (Guatemala).

We will venture into many different kinds of history. In regional terms, our scope will be transnational and international: we will cover the United States and the Middle East in the wider world. In thematic and methodological terms, we will approach our subject through biography, oral history, and microhistory; material history and museum studies; cultural and intellectual history; women’s and gender studies; and the history of academic disciplines, especially archaeology and anthropology.

All assignments in this class work towards the goal of producing public-facing scholarship. Drawing on the museum’s collections, archives, and library holdings, we will conduct research to write biographical studies modeled on articles that have appeared in the museum’s Expedition magazine. We will also craft Instagram posts featuring museum objects, and develop material for oral presentation in the museum galleries. To reach readers living far beyond the Penn campus and Philadelphia, we will write and edit course-related articles for Wikipedia, learning from tutorials provided by the non-profit Wiki Education foundation.

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Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 4 February 2020
In class - Penn Museum Women & Wikipedia
Creating a To-Do List

Discussion: Which women scholars and philanthropists of the Penn Museum appear in Wikipedia?  Who is missing?  What can we do to fill in the gaps?

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.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
In class - Discussion

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Assignment - Exercise
In class - Discussion
Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Biographies

History

Women's Studies

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
In class - Writing about Florence Shotridge

We will assemble source materials and begin to draft an article in class, as a team.

Assignment - Add to an article
Assignment - Exercise

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion
Milestones

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

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
In class - Writing about Sophia Wells Royce Williams

We will assemble source materials and begin to draft, in class, as a team.

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 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
In class - Adding Russia to Mexico
Adding to the Life Story of Zelia Nuttall

We will discuss, in class, how we can add coverage about Zelia Nuttall's Russian Expedition to her biography.

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 - Exercise

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
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.

Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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!

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
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!
In class - In-class presentation
Assignment - Original analytical paper

Write a paper going beyond your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas, arguments, and original research about your topic.

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Milestones

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

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