Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Political Economy of Technology and Science fall 2010

Course description
Political Economy of Technology and Science.

Solutions to human problems are mediated by economic and political institutions, which in turn help to shape technology and science. The course covers basic political and economic concepts, institutions and processes as they relate to American and international science and technology. From JMU Course Catalog.

Assignment overview
Students will be assigned to groups and improve one article related to the topics covered in Dr. Tang's section of the course. The objective will be to make the article a B-class article, doing work as thoroughly as both time and accessibility of research permits.

Assignment timeline

 * October 25th – Students create User accounts, watch several short informational pieces online about including content in Wikipedia read a couple policies.


 * November 1 – Practice doing basic edits on Wikipedia and creating a user sandbox. Also examine a selected featured article and compare it to your own articles. Link for the Featured Article review part of the assignment


 * November 8 (extended to November 15) – An initial bulleted bibliography of works the students plan to use to write the article on the user sandbox and a brief outline of major topics or sections they want covered.


 * November 29 – Article goes live. One group member meets with Alex Stinson in afternoon to discuss progress on articles and questions about anything related to the Wikipedia portion of the assignment, each section in outline must have a summary on the page. Also, members of the Wikipedia community will be solicited for feedback on the article by Ambassadors/Alex.


 * December 10 – Final day for edits to count for classroom assessment

Students
This is a list of groups of students and their articles, which students will sign up for at the appropriate time. Please sign your name below with the following code *.

Mentors please add "Mentor:Username" under the individual sections so that we know who will be working with which group.

Carbon emissions reporting


Mentor:

Negawatt power
Sandbox:User:Mulforel/Sandbox
 * Mentor:
 * Mentor:
 * Mentor:

Cap and dividend
(Note:Unlike the other articles this one will be started from scratch.) Mentor:
 * User:Tessitjp/sandbox

Community wind energy
User:New Potato Caboose/sandbox

Power Purchase Agreement

 * Mentor:
 * User:Feuchtcc/sandbox
 * Mentor:
 * User:Feuchtcc/sandbox

Unconventional oil


Mentor:

User:AbbyChrisinger/sandbox

Demand side management
User:Tannerbk/sandbox

Energy security
Mentor:

User:Air3drew/sandbox

Micro hydro


Mentor:
 * User:Jmsheats/Sandbox

Biomass briquettes
Mentor: User:Rothboy2/Draft Page

Nationalization of oil supplies
Mentor: User:Marian Sokolski/sandbox