Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UCLA/Re-Imagining Global Korea: The Art of Protest and Social Change (Spring 2019)

The image of Global Korea in the 21st century commonly reflects one of high-tech innovation, spectacular urban growth, and dizzying social change. While such images reinforce the values of seamless progress and unfettered markets, the ongoing dynamism of mass protest and public acts of defiance and resistance reveals a powerful alternative imaginary. This course invites students to critically re-imagine the idea of Global Korea by exploring the art of protest and bottom-up social change. We will examine how various social actors–including workers, students, parents, feminists, migrants, queers, and members of the Korean diaspora among others–have utilized protest to wield pointed critiques against social inequality, political repression, and capitalist injustice. We will analyze how social, political and economic conditions shape the limits and possibilities of protest politics in fostering meaningful change. We will also examine the role of art, emotions, bodies, places and infrastructure in forging oppositional cultures of resistance and solidarity.

Students will knowledge they have acquired on the art of protest and social change in contemporary Korea to improve Wikipedia through the revision of existing articles and the creation of new content.

Week 1
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

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

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 7
Guiding framework

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

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 8
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.

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 9
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 10
Guiding questions

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!

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

Guiding questions