Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Anthropology, Wikipedia, and the Media (Karen Sue Rolph)/Course description

Course description
ANTHROPOLOGY 135 – SPECIAL TOPICS

WELCOME TO: ANTHROPOLOGY, WIKIPEDIA, AND THE MEDIA A Workshop at Saint Mary's College of California

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS CLASS IS TO HELP YOU LEARN ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF WIKIPEDIA, AND TO WORK TOGETHER COLLABORATING, EDITING, AUTHORING AND BECOMING CONTRIBUTORS WHO WRITE AND PUBLISH ARTICLES IN WIKIPEDIA. AT THE SAME TIME AS WE DEVELOP ITERATIVE PROJECTS TO PUBLISH IN WIKIPEDIA, WE WILL DISCUSS AND CRITIQUE ONLINE MEDIA, AND TAKE AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO INTERPRETATING INFORMATION, SUCH AS: GENDER, ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS.

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