Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Archaeological Ethics, Politics, and Law (Grant Aylesworth)/Course description

Course description
Increasingly, in the contemporary world, there is a demand for higher standards of ethics and increasing scrutiny of the behavior of individuals and organizations. The field of archaeology, and more broadly, professionals engaged in careers related to tangible cultural heritage, face numerous challenges related to their activities. These challenges often relate to legal issues, political issues, economic issues, and ethical concerns. Generally speaking, the subject matter of this course is of interest to students interested in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies, history, and other disciplines. In this course we will examine ethical, political, and legal issues surrounding tangible cultural heritage in the contemporary world. We will have sustainability as one of our major themes in a problem-based and challenge-based approach to learning about real-world issues. We will work collaboratively to apply our knowledge and take action on solutions that we propose. These solutions will relate to real-world problems and we will actively engage in the world of tangible cultural heritage issues beyond the classroom.

Wikipedia
We will be adding new articles and editing existing articles on Wikipedia. We will work collaboratively to set our goals. In addition to adding new Wikipedia articles, students can edit relevant existing articles and lists. There are a number of lists that we can update for this course, and we can also work on updating existing relevant articles.

Probably everyone in the class uses Wikipedia weekly, if not daily. Rather than discouraging the use of Wikipedia, the class will take an active role in making a contribution by adding new articles. This assignment will take us out of our typical role with respect to Wikipedia, that of consumers of information, and make us producers. Through this process, we will learn about research, citation, writing style, further details about topics related to the course, and much more. Lastly, by contributing and engaging with Wikipedia in a deeper and more meaningful way than is typical, we will arrive at a much better understanding of the workings of a resource that we use so frequently.

A Few Related Wikipedia Pages
Feel free to add any other useful Wikipedia pages here. Many of these needs some work.
 * Archaeological ethics
 * WikiProject Archaeology
 * Category: Start-Class Archaeology Articles
 * Category: Archaeology articles by quality
 * WikiProject Archaeology
 * Ontario Heritage Trust
 * Ontario Heritage Act
 * Heritage Canada
 * Canadian Environmental Assessment Act
 * Canadian Environmental Law Association
 * List of Canadian national parks
 * Canadian Archaeological Association

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