Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Corporate Social Responsibility

Class Description
This is a 3 credit certificate course providing a comprehensive overview of the current developments and emerging trends in corporate social responsibility (CSR), Sustainability and Governance. The student intake is limited to facilitate debates and discussions. The learning approach is participatory and learner-centered with focus on outbound sensitization sessions.

Assignment Overview
Over the course duration, the students in this class will be completing a series of tasks that will allow them to familiarize themselves with the Wikipedia community and practices, understand the highly developed style of Wikipedia, complete research on a focused topic of the student's choice, and write (or substantially revise) a Wikipedia article. Students have two options to identify topics:


 * Students may work individually to develop articles pertaining to Corporate Social Responsibility in India/ the world


 * Students may build articles within a broader topic that needs improvement. The professor will identify these broad areas and students should each choose a sub-topic article to work on.

Article Selection
The Directory of WikiProjects is a good place to begin your search. You may also explore these categories:
 * Social Responsibility
 * Social Ethics
 * Business Ethics

You may also look for underdeveloped articles linked to one of the following articles:


 * Corporate social responsibility
 * Carbon neutrality
 * Business ethics
 * Corporate governance
 * Corporate sustainability
 * Inclusive business

The participants are also encouraged to create new articles on CSR – any subtopic pertaining to Indian /world CSR initiatives.

Please avoid topics like CSR of XYZ Corp unless the CSR has a much large impact.Ideally most of such articles would be sections in XYZ Corp and not a whole article  Srikanth (Logic)  21:13, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

IMPORTANT
'''This project counts for 1 full credit. If you do not adhere to the time lines mentioned, you will be penalized marks wise for every missed deadline'''.

The acronym CSR has many meanings and the way we are using it is not the most widely used. The first time you use the acronym in an article, always do so as a "piped link" thus:. In article titles always spell it out in full, eg. Corporate social responsibility at Coca-Cola India not CSR at Coca-Cola India.

Due August 14

 * Create a username


 * Post your username to the students section of this page


 * Complete this form


 * Complete the practice assignment located on the class discussion page

Due August 14-23

 * Explore help resources


 * Practice the following six editing skills in your sandbox: add text, add headers & subheaders, create a bulleted list, add a link to a Wikipedia article, add a link to an external page on the internet, format text (bold & italics), create a table


 * “Like” the Wikipedia On Campus Facebook page (optional)


 * Leave a comment on a classmate’s Talk page


 * Identify at least three articles related to your topic of choice


 * Make a minimum of 5 edits (comments, copyedits, references, etc.) to articles related to your proposed topic


 * Select an article


 * Post your article topic beside your username on the Wikipedia course page

Due August 30-September 13

 * Conduct in depth research on your topic and gather sources


 * On your article’s talk page (discussion page), list a bibliography of sources and proposed changes you’d like to make to the article or concepts you would like to include


 * Add the following code to the top of your article’s talk page to mark it as the subject of your assignment. Note: You must retrieve the code from the "edit" space of this page.


 * Inform your campus ambassador of your activities by writing on his or her talk page


 * Begin editing/writing the article based on your proposed changes and other conversation with Wikipedians

Due September 13-September 27

 * Ask your campus ambassador for feedback about your contributions to the article


 * Nominate your article for “Did You Know” status


 * Continue research on your topic


 * Work on your article with the help of your professor and your campus ambassador


 * Continue expanding and making changes to your article based on suggestions from Wikipedians, your campus ambassadors, and your professor

Due September 27 - 29

 * Present Wikipedia article during class


 * Complete Wikipedia article due September 29

Students
This is a list of the usernames of the students in this class and the articles each selected to edit.

'''NOTE: In order to maintain the student and article data in a single place, the table has been merged and moved into the master table on 2011-11-14. Please continue to maintain the table in the new location.'''