Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Sonoma State University/Knowledge, Gender, and Power (Fall 2018)

This course focuses on feminist epistemological critiques in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies. We will analyze the different ways women know and how those knowledge positions have been informed by culture and complicated by the power dynamics within a patriarchal framework. We will also explore how the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality fit into the western societal construct of being, knowing, and thinking and how the embodiment of that lived experience informs self-efficacy, personal narrative and one’s identity as a producer of knowledge.

Epistemology is the theory of knowledge; it is the basis from which we draw knowledge and helps to explain how we know, what we know. From a feminist standpoint, we approach epistemology by questioning the role of power in knowledge and the influence gender has on it. Throughout this course, we will return to the same questions that will guide our discourse:

• What are the power dynamics that might influence our position as knowers?

• Who has access to knowledge and in what ways?

• How does our relationship to knowledge shape our capacity to contribute knowledge content?

Theory and Practice: There will be an emphasis on the evaluation and critiquing of Wikipedia through the lens of a Women's and Gender Studies perspective. We will actively engage in editing and contributing content to articles related to the course subject matter. While our course work will emphasize concentration of theories of knowledge in relation to feminist thought, students will spend a great deal of time becoming familiar with Wikipedia to become proficient with this platform to edit and create new articles relating to the course subject-matter.

Week 1
Welcome to our first class meeting of Knowledge, Gender, and Power. In this course meeting we will:


 * Introduce ourselves to one another
 * Review the syllabus
 * Discuss the required texts
 * Talk about the Wiki.edu course component
 * Have a class discussion
 * Angela Davis on Education and Politics (1969):[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2kpFVpE9rg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2kpFVpE9rg]
 * Discuss what is due next week
 * &quot;Editing Wikipedia Articles on Women's Studies&quot; pdf
 * Read before coming to class:  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Feminist Epistemology:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/fem-epis/

Homework

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.)

Take any assigned training modules and exercises.

Review


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 2
Read: ''Knowledge Difference Power

''Introduction &amp; Chapters 1

Wikipedia brochures need to be read in completion

Everyone should now have created their Wiki account and be signed into the course page

Week 3
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

Chapter 2

Women as Creators of Knowledge'' Harding pdf

Post your response to the readings to the online course discussion forum

Read and respond to the posts of two other classmates

Week 4
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 3

The Chronicle of Higher Education:  Women's-Studies Students Across the Nation are Editing Wikipedia

Week 5
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 4

Closing the Gender Gap in STEM  :

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/01/30/closing-the-gender-gap-in-stem/

Exercise: Add a citation

Week 6
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 5

Post your response to the readings to the online course discussion forum

Read and respond to the posts of two other classmates

Week 7
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 6

'''


 * Meet in University Library for Wikipedia Workshop**'''

Please bring your laptops to work on. If you’re not able to, you can use the laptops in the library during this time. This class meeting is important to help guide you on your editing work on Wikipedia and this cannot be made-up afterwards.

Exercise: Evaluate an article

Week 8
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 7

Find your Wikipedia article that you would like to edit. Email instructor for approval.

Exercise: Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 9
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

Chapter 8

''

Find sources of reference to support the content that you plan to contribute to your Wikipedia article

Exercise: Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Post your response to the readings to the online course discussion forum

Read and respond to the posts of two other classmates

Week 10
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 9

Begin editing your Wikipedia article

Week 11
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 10

Continue to edit your Wikipedia article

Week 12
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 11

Post the link to your Wikipedia article that you have been working on to the course discussion forum and discuss your experience. Complete the Peer Review Guiding framework. Read two other classmates posts and respond. Finally, leave a peer review on the talk page of at least one classmate's Wikipedia article.

Post your response to the readings to the online course discussion forum

Read and respond to the posts of two other classmates

Week 13
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 12

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 14
Happy Thanksgiving. No assignments due this week. Enjoy your break!

Week 15
Read: ''Knowledge, Difference, and Power

''Chapter 13-14

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.

Exercise: Add links to your article

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!

Week 16
This will be our final class meeting. Please come prepared with your final presentation.

Consider touching upon these Guiding questions during your presentation.

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