Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Bergen Community College/Women in America 116-004 (Fall)

This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender relations and the experiences of women in American culture from the early colonial period to the present. Throughout the semester we will proceed in a more or less chronological fashion as we consider the interplay between women’s lived experiences and the law, politics, economics, migration, industrialization, technological advances, and consumerism. Issues of difference – racial, economic, ethnic, and sexual orientation – and their impact on notions and definitions of femininity and womanhood, and how these changed over time, as well as relations between women, will be a particular emphasis in this course. Through close readings of primary and secondary sources, print culture and various other cultural productions, we will look at the multiple ways in which women self-identified to reveal resistance to prescribed notions of femininity and womanhood and the consequences of non-conformity.

Week 4
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 5
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone doing this project should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 7
Biographies

History

Women's Studies

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 9
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 10
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Exercise
Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 13
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Guiding questions

Week 14
Now that you've improved your draft, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.