Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Washington/Archaeology of mainland southeast Asia (Spring 2014)/Course description

ARCHY 309 'Mainland Southeast Asian Archaeology' is open to Anthropology majors at all undergraduate levels. The goals of the course are for students to be able to describe some of the archaeological evidence from mainland SEA and construct a basic timeline of major social, economic and technological events across the region; understand the controversies current in mainland SEA archaeology, especially those surrounding major transition events; apply scientific archaeological thinking to evaluate different sides of the current controversies, and; interpret archaeological evidence and evaluate the validity of different explanations. We're using wikipedia to make connections between the literature we read in class and online content. We're improving wikipedia by (1) adding scholarly sources to existing articles, (2) contributing new verifiable content to existing articles, and (3) contributing new articles (though some may never leave the students' sandboxes). These activities are in addition to essay writing and face-to-face seminar work.

Assignment plan
Every student edits wikipedia every week (after being quizzed on the inductions in the first week), minimally by adding one relevant sentence to one article per week. The sentence must contain a footnote to a citation (the tutorial is very effective) to the item of scholarly literature they read for class that week (on which they also submit a hard copy of a page of notes). Students are also working in groups to create one new article per group, using some of the good article criteria as guidelines (though we will not be seeking GA nominations for the usual reasons). Here are the specific instructions and the grading rubric (accessible only to SP13 ARCHY 309 students): https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/894163/assignments/2463682. Comtebenoit (talk) 04:59, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Assignment draft locations
Phum Snay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arctickinkajou/sandbox Two Layer Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piesquared93/sandbox Lang Kamnan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Z._PUPU/sandbox Khok Phanom Di: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johnhart151/sandbox

Feedback via edits and tags
I will be editing your drafts to give you feedback with inline tags like this. You can hover over the tag to get more details, look for the custom comment after "You can help". Once you've addressed the feedback you can delete the tag. For a vast list of tags and their meanings, visit this page.

([ Click to return to your main course page and continue.])