Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Environment and Society (Grant Aylesworth)/Course description

Course description
A study of the various types of society, both past and present, that have emerged or been transformed through their interaction with their environments. The course will explore features associated with the major forms of society from foraging, through horticultural and agrarian, to industrial and post-industrial societal types. It will explore such themes as demography, resource exploitation, ecological adaptation, energy access, and environmental impact, in the context of social organization and societal formation.

Wikipedia Assignment
Your assignment is to choose an existing Wikipedia article that is related to the course and to improve it by following the process outlined below. For this course, we will not be adding new Wikipedia articles we will be working with existing 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 evaluating the quality of articles and making a contribution intended to improve the article of their choice. 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.

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