Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Russell Sage College/Edith Wharton (Fall 2024)

This is class for advanced undergraduates in the English, Writing, and Culture AND English Education programs. Students will spend the semester studying the works of Edith Wharton. The culminating course project will be the creation of Wikipedia entries for short stories (3 or 4) by Edith Wharton which are important in the field of literary studies (and are included in literature courses) but which have yet to included in Wikipedia. Students will work in groups (likely 3-4 per group) and workshop their entries with the entire class. We will set aside the equivalent of one credit-hour of our four credit-hour course to this project, including in-class meeting time. Groups will generate annotated bibliographies of criticism related to their stories and after the Wikipedia work is completed, each individual student will write a 5-6 page analytical paper based on this research which moves them into the terrain of original research and argument.