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Course name
Intro to Women's and Gender Studies
Institution
Georgetown University
Instructor
Theodora Danylevich
Subject
Women's and Gender Studies
Course dates
2019-08-28 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-09 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
17


An introduction to the scholarly field of Women’s and Gender Studies is first and foremost an induction into ways of seeing and understanding power, privilege, and identity in social and political contexts. Our course will begin with a focus on threshold concepts that will enable you to critically understand and personally reflect on your own and others’ identities as constructed and shored up by a variety of social and political factors, and in relation to differential distributions of power and privilege. We will then delve into more focused explorations of topics and texts. Our approach will focus on popular media and representation as a primary way in which stereotypical images and attitudes are circulated and perpetuated. We will also examine ways in which feminists can and have reclaimed platforms and mediums in order to mitigate these harmful dominant views.

This course aims to equip you to change the world for the better because together we will develop ways to understand and clearly articulate how oppression and inequality operate, and how we might envision change. Many of the topics we will cover involve bearing witness to and acknowledging injustice, violence, and suffering. Mindful of the emotional impact of such topics, we will tend to feminist praxis as a mode of problem-solving, and we will learn how to participate in the larger project of creating incremental change toward greater equity and justice.

THE PURPOSE OF THE WIKIpedia assignment:
To offer hands-on experience with a public knowledge platform vulnerable to systemic bias, and to join forces with others in a project that seeks to counteract systemic bias.

Timeline

Week 3

Course meetings
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
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 4

Course meetings
Monday, 16 September 2019   |   Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 23 September 2019   |   Wednesday, 25 September 2019
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 30 September 2019   |   Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation


Assignment - Exercise

Copyedit an article

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 7 October 2019   |   Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8

Course meetings
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

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

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 21 October 2019   |   Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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 10

Course meetings
Monday, 28 October 2019   |   Wednesday, 30 October 2019
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 11

Course meetings
Monday, 4 November 2019   |   Wednesday, 6 November 2019
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.


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
Monday, 11 November 2019   |   Wednesday, 13 November 2019
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!


Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Week 13

Course meetings
Monday, 18 November 2019   |   Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Milestones

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