Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of California, Berkeley/Ethnic Studies 21ac: A Comparative Survey of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the U.S. (Spring 2014)/Course description

Due to an unfortunate series of time conflicts, the on-Wikipedia portion of this course will be running on an accelerated pace compared to what is normally expected. (Running a course that relies on the schedules of two very busy people lining up wasn't ideal...) All participating students will have received at least three and a half hours of training and background on Wikipedia's history, culture, and policies. Slightly unusually, most content development will be taking place offline - much of the content students intend to integrate in to their Wikipedia articles is already written, just not yet integrated. I (User:Kevin Gorman) will be running full plagiarism checks on all submitted content, and taking care of any necessary clean-up once the course is over. Despite the accelerated time period, I am expecting most results to be of fairly high quality (most students will be freshmen). Please feel free to bring any concerns about the course to me, students will start enrolling shortly.

Here's a snippet of the course description: This course provides students with the tools and historical background needed to engage in meaningful and informed debates about race, gender, legal status, crime and punishment. Central to this learning and analysis is the question, ‘how might we forge an abolition pedagogy’, and how has/can such pedagogy be formed in antiracist and feminist scholarship, grounded in domestic and transnational grassroots social movements? In addressing these, the course intimately links the community and the academy as sites of organizing and analysis in critical prison studies and abolition movements through a comparative racial-ethnic analysis.

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