Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/St Mary's College of Maryland/Race, Gender, and Environmental Justice (Fall)

Environmental Justice social movements work to combat the inequitable distribution of negative environmental impacts in communities of color and low-income communities and seeks fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, class, national origin, and education level with respect to environmental politics, their implementation,

and their enforcement. In this class, we will use feminist perspectives to explore the impacts intersecting axes of difference have on the development, mitigation, and experiences of environmental justice, the processes that cause these injustices, and what activists are doing to combat these injustices. We will focus on a U.S. context (in the interest of time), while acknowledging the interconnected and global context within which these processes occur. We will begin by exploring the theoretical and political roots of the environmental justice movement and the role feminist perspectives have in our understandings of these processes. We will discuss the history of the movement, the relationship to mainstream environmentalism, feminist perspectives on the relationship between gender, sexuality, race, and the environment, the impact of intersecting social processes of race, class, gender, and place, how we come to understand what justice constitutes and the role knowledge production plays in these processes. We will then apply these concepts to specific case studies to further explore the implication and lived experiences of environmental injustices and how environmental justice activists work to bring attention to their struggles and create positive change in their communities.

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

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 should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 8
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 9
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 10
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 11
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

Nominating your article for Did You Know

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
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 14
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 15
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.