Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Michigan/Sex and Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture (Winter 2019)

This course explores Jewish understandings and practices of sexuality and sex/gender from antiquity to the present. We will consider how different concepts of gender – masculine, feminine, nonbinary, queer, and more – interacted with sexual practices and ideas in a variety of religious, social, and political contexts. And we’ll not only trace shifting notions of sexuality and gender but also examine how these notions shored up differing ways of being and doing Jewishness.

We will study ancient and medieval traditions (Bible, Talmud, Kabbalah) and their transformations in modern Jewish communities through contemporary Jewish movements, medieval Jewish practices and imaginaries in Christian and Islamicate worlds, and the complexities of modern Jewish formations in the US and Israel/Palestine, and the present. Our source materials will range across the ritual, legal, ethical, and visual-material, from the philosophical to the everyday. A recurring difficulty we’ll have to grapple with is how we can study cultures in different times and places using present-day categories and identities (e.g. heterosexuality and LGBTQ history). We will try to approach this problem through creative projects and experimental writing.

Projects of Interest

 * WikiProject: Jewish History
 * WikiProject: Kabbalah
 * WikiProject: Jewish Women
 * WikiProject: Judaism

Research Guide

 * Research resources to use when finding sources/citations
 * Library Wikipedia Research Guide
 * Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet

Need help? Contact your librarians!

 * Make an appointment with Anne Cong-Huyen
 * Make an appointment with Meredith Kahn

Week 5
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.

On 2/7, we'll be joined by two librarians who will introduce us to library resources, databases, and the process of finding academic research.

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.)

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Week 8
Reach out to your Librarians or Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help  button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Art History

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

History

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun making edits in Wikipedia.

Week 9
Review the tutorials and exercises completed previously and consult your librarians or Wikipedia expert for assistance. ScholarSpace will also be holding additional office hours for drop-in assistance.

Week 10
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; revise the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better.

Reminder: ScholarSpace will also be holding additional office hours for drop-in assistance.

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 11
Guiding questions

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