Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Simmons College/The Anthropology of Cyberspace (FYS 103-14) (Spring 2014)/Course description

The Anthropology of Cyberspace(FYS 103-14) is a spring semester, 2014 freshman writing class at Simmons College in Boston. For this innovative new program faculty members were challenged “to teach an area of personal and/or research interest with an explicit focus on the development of critical reading, writing, and analysis. Topics within these courses should encourage intellectual curiosity, college-level thinking, and substantive argument.” Course sections are limited to a maximum of 18 students.

Here’s the official course description:


 * In this course you will be challenged to think critically about the ubiquitous role of cyberspace in your personal, social, and intellectual life. We will utilize the anthropological research techniques of autoethnography and participant observation as well as a wide variety of media (e.g. social networking tools, scholarly research, science fiction, popular film) to gain analytical distance and address fundamental questions about the origins, experience, and future of cyberspace. During the course of our shared explorations we will also address digital divide issues such as race, class, gender, geography, and age.

The course includes a Wikipedia assignment to give students the experience of working collaboratively in cyberspace and provide experience in a writing genre that is far removed from the typical academic essay. The students will work in small groups to substantially improve selected stub articles about prominent women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. These articles (aka STEM stubs) will be selected under the guidance of our campus ambassador, User:Girona7.

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Class participants

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 * MorganVasile (talk) 17:08, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Suggested articles for expansion and/or cleanup
The following is a sampling of suggested articles to create or add upon. However, feel free to come up with your own ideas! Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.


 * Virginia Alexander (Obstetrics and gynecology)
 * NIH bio
 * Evelyn Berezin (computer scientist)
 * JudyAnn Bigby (Internal Medicine)
 * Alexa Canady (neuroscience)
 * Gertrude Cox (statistician) - Relatively full article but needs sections w/headings and inline citations
 * NAS Biographical Memoir
 * Mary Letitia Caldwell (chemist)
 * Susan Jane Cunningham (mathematician)
 * Marie Maynard Daly (biochemist) Needs inline citations
 * Margaret Davis (paleoecologist)
 * Ann Dowling (mechanical engineer) - needs an infobox, reformatting, and more info
 * Recent news
 * Sylvia Earle (oceanographer) Good length but needs general cleanup/reorganization
 * Annie Easley (computer engineer) Needs inline citations
 * Caroline Endres Diescher (civil engineer)
 * Helen T. Edwards (physicist)
 * Katherine Esau (botanist)
 * Debra Fischer (astronomer)
 * Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (medical doctor) Needs more inline citations
 * Charlotte Friend (virologist) Needs more inline citations
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Alyssa A. Goodman (astronomer)
 * Mary W. Gray (mathematician)
 * Sheila Greibach (computer scientist) Needs to be reformatted; needs an infobox
 * Alice Hamilton (toxicology) Article is good but needs inline citations, reference cleanup
 * Emmeline Jean Hanson (physiologist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Dorrit Hoffleit (astronomer) - needs photo and expansion of text
 * Hildegarde Howard (paleornithologist) - could use fleshing out, reorganization so it's less listy and more like prose
 * Biography from JSTOR
 * Ruth Hubbard (biologist) - needs photo and general cleanup
 * Barbara Crawford Johnson (aerospace engineer) - needs more substance; "projects" section needs to be converted from a list into prose
 * Mary Ellen Jones (biochemist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Emeline Roberts Jones (dental scientist)
 * Maria Klawe (computer scientist) - generally good but needs a photo
 * Rebecca Lancefield (biochemist) - needs more detail and a proper infobox
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Martha L. Ludwig (crystallographer) - needs an infobox
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Sidnie Manton
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ann McKee (neuropathologist)
 * Carla Meninsky (computer engineer)
 * Carle M. Pieters (planetary scientist) - needs an infobox
 * Edith Quimby (physicist) - could use more inline citations
 * Helen Quinn (particle physicist) - needs inline citations
 * Sarah Ratner (chemist) Infobox could use updating; consolidation of book ref with multiple page citations. See Henrietta Swan Leavitt for this.
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier (psychologist/cognitive scientist)
 * Bio from FABBS Foundation
 * Ruth Sager (geneticist)
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Ruth Sanger
 * Biographical Memoir
 * Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (astronomer)
 * Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (biochemist) Article is good, but needs inline citations and ref reformatting
 * Elizabeth Thomas (Egyptologist)
 * Biography from Brown University
 * Monica Turner (ecologist) Could use overall formatting updates (eg, more line spaces to create shorter paragraphs); Infobox could use more detail
 * Mary Walton (engineer)
 * Sylvia Wiegand (mathematician) Added infobox, but could probably use more detail
 * Mary Lou Zoback (geophysicist)

Women in STEM Resources
Note: Wikipedia pages that include lists of important women are all missing plenty of key people, so feel free to add to those lists
 * Category:Women scientists
 * List of notable women in computer science
 * List of female mathematicians
 * List of women scientists
 * Women in computing - Wikipedia article that needs additional citations for verification
 * Women in engineering
 * List of women astronomers
 * Category:Women astronomers
 * History of Women in Astronomy
 * Category:Women physicists
 * Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
 * Women in medicine
 * Women in geology
 * List of female Nobel laureates
 * History of women in engineering
 * Timeline of women in dentistry
 * Women and the environment through history
 * Biographies of Women Mathematicians
 * Encyclopedia of Women in Medicine
 * Indian Academy of Sciences - List of Women Scientists
 * Lilavati's daugters
 * Biographical Memoirs of the National Academies of Science
 * Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
 * Women in Aviation and Space History
 * Changing the face of Medicine (women in medicine)

Editing Wikipedia Resources

 * Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Teahouse (Safe space for new editors to ask questions about how to do stuff on Wikipedia)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
 * Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article Development
 * Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)

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