View source for Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northern Arizona University/WGS 300w Feminist Theories (Fall 2022)

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 | course_name = WGS 300w Feminist Theories
 | instructor_username = DrHeller
 | instructor_realname = Meredith Heller
 | support_staff = Ian (Wiki Ed)
 | subject = 300W
 | start_date = 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC
 | end_date = 2022-12-15 23:59:59 UTC
 | institution = Northern Arizona University
 | expected_students = 24
 | assignment_page = Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Northern_Arizona_University/WGS_300w_Feminist_Theories_(Fall_2022)
 | slug = Northern_Arizona_University/WGS_300w_Feminist_Theories_(Fall_2022)
 | campaigns = National Women's Studies Association, Knowledge Equity, Fall 2022
 | dashboard.wikiedu.org = yes
}}

WGS 300W: &quot;Foundational overviews of the history of feminist theory. Also addresses contemporary ethnic minority and international theorists&quot;
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{{student table row|Crm723|[[Female Gaze]]|}}
{{student table row|Kseliz|[[Feminist therapy]]|}}
{{student table row|Liyahonzo2|[[Native American feminism]]|}}
{{student table row|Rylees13|[[Lipstick Lesbian]], [[Lipstick lesbian]]|[[Lipstick lesbian]]}}
{{student table row|Mayasteinberg|[[Chicana feminism]]|}}
{{student table row|2024adl|[[Gender essentialism]]|}}
{{student table row|Yui0712Char|[[Liberal feminism]]|}}
{{student table row|Nightcourt6716|[[Feminist views on BDSM]]|}}
{{student table row|Jenni Farley||}}
{{student table row|Myahosborn|[[Male gaze]]|}}
{{student table row|KateMartin2352|[[Refugee women]]|}}
{{student table row|Kiwibiwi|[[Fourth-wave feminism]]|}}
{{student table row|ZazzyCat1|[[Homonationalism]]|}}
{{student table row|Plattapus11||}}
{{student table row|JaxWiki542|[[Victim feminism]]|}}
{{student table row|Corporeal Storm||}}
{{student table row|Nhd470|[[Feminist philosophy]]|}}
{{student table row|Kso253|[[Feminist political theory]]|}}
{{student table row|MeliaHarding|[[Lactivism]]|}}
{{student table row|Kalijaye77|[[Feminist technoscience]], [[Feminist Technoscience]]|}}
{{student table row|Rmj99||}}
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=== Week 1 ===
{{start of course week|2022-08-29|2022-08-31}}
{{in class|In class - Introduction to Project}}
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Download and review the complete project guidelines from our BB Learn page<br />
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Student expectations and skills: 

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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">build junior level academic research skills by finding verifiable, peer-reviewed sources.</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">practice WGS/social sciences technical writing skills including writing a formal literature review.</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">critically apply expert knowledge to comprehensive assessment of Wikipedia.</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">add at least a paragraph’s worth of writing to the article in the “objective and unbiased” writing tone required by Wikipedia, making sure additions and changes reflect the topic as it is and not your own opinion of what it should be, and are substantive/important (i.e. not just grammar fixes).</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">add and fix in-text and footnote/endnote citations in the complete format requested by Wikipedia.</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">practice working with a professional organization: ensure that all Wikipedia work is “live” (i.e. is public); rate the page; check and respond to editor changes; complete changes requested by me.</span>

 

'''<span class="underline"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Elements:</span></span>'''

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">this project has two parts: becoming the expert on a topic, and applying that expertise to its Wikipedia page.</span>

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| “Objective” intro paper
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| Literature review
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| Wikipedia assessment and plan
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| Follow-up report
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=== Week 2 ===
{{start of course week|2022-09-07}}
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=== Week 3 ===
{{start of course week|2022-09-12|2022-09-14}}
{{assignment|Assignment - Pick a topic}}
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Pick a topic and confirm verbally or in writing  that it is available before you sign up for it on Wikipedia. Topics are first-come-first-serve. If you are interested in soething that is not on this list, by all means ask (make sure there is already a page for it first).

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In the next weeks:

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* create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link provided.
* link yourself to your chosen wiki page (for help, complete the [[../../training/students/finalize-topic-exercise|Finalize your topic]] exercise)
* take the above online training modules to help you figure out how to edit, and what is expected for entries. These trainings are required for your course and wikipedia tracks your completion of them.
* set up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor wikipedia visual editor ]

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For extra explanation and resources, read this [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_(Wiki_Education_Foundation).pdf Editing Wikipedia] handout and the [https://wikiedu.org/womens_studies Women's Studies] handout.

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{{in class|In class - Find your sources}}
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Extensively research and read about your field. Find and read seven or more scholarly sources. You will need to find and read resources from each of these areas:

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a) book reference materials

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b) scholarly (peer reviewed) journal articles and periodicals

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c) non-peer reviewed online materials (can be news articles, blogs, etc)

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 turn in a complete works referenced page documenting the sources you used to become an expert. Standard reference format is required (MLA, APA, or Chicago). You will also turn in 3 annotated biblographies (1 para each).

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=== Week 4 ===
{{start of course week|2022-09-19|2022-09-21}}
{{assignment|Assignment - Upload your 7 sources sheet and 3 annotated bibs to BB Learn}}
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=== Week 5 ===
{{start of course week|2022-09-26|2022-09-28}}
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=== Week 6 ===
{{start of course week|2022-10-03|2022-10-05}}
{{assignment|Assignment - Introduction to topic paper}}
'''<span style="font-size: 12pt; background: lightgrey;">“Objective” introduction to topic paper (3 pages):</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'''<span style="font-size: 12pt;">after reading so many sources, you know more than most people about your topic. Your job is to decide what seem to be the most important things to know about your topic (based on your research), then condense and organize that information into something that gives others a basic overview (this is exactly what encyclopedia writers do) in 3 pages</span>

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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wikipedia requires an “objective/neutral/unbiased” summarizing tone for entries so we’re going to practice that in this paper (this is NOT the usual tone we take in critical or persuasive papers so it will be a challenge). </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Compose an objective general overview as if you were writing to an educated person who has never taken a feminist theories class, supporting your statements with scholarship. You’re '''''<span class="underline">not</span>''''' making an argument or value-statement, you’re organizing and explaining what you have deemed the most essential info. Consider these questions:</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How is this topic defined/described in academic literature?</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why is this topic important/part of WGS?</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How and why did the topic come to be (when did we name and begin studying it)?</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What are some of the most critical ideas or theories or people that work on it?</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span>'''''<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is your topic a term or a subject?</span>'''''<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (i.e. heteronormativity is a thing but the term was created to reveal our acceptance of this thing, thus it's a subject we designed to investigate certain behaviors/ideals)</span>

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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Make sure your intro paper has a short thesis at the top to guide your reader into the topic and what you will point out are the critical elements.</span>
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=== Week 7 ===
{{start of course week|2022-10-10|2022-10-12}}
{{assignment|Assignment - lit review }}
'''<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Literature review: </span>'''<span style="font-size: 12pt;">your review must address no less than three (but likely more) theorists and their academic texts (books or articles). You must focus on the most famous/canonical ones or the most controversial ones: ones who made significant interventions in the topic or helps shape what it is. A good way to identify these people/texts is to read several articles and summaries. Whose name keeps coming up? What work is always cited? In your literature review DO NOT include:</span>

# <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">texts or authors that are summarizing famous people or famous texts (secondary sources). You need to access the primary sources;</span>
# <span style="font-size: 12pt;">texts or authors who might talk about something in the field or be part of the field but are not key or canonical (i.e. did not change or shape the field);  </span>
# <span style="font-size: 12pt;">summary books, anthology books, or other books explaining the field (tertiary sources).</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A literature review IS NOT an annotated bibliography, NOT a series of book or article summaries, and NOT a position-based critique. Rather, you creating a picture of the key ideas that authors and texts that have shaped the topic. Synthesize this material rather than summarize. What are some key through lines? How are these texts in conversation with one another? Why did this work or author make such an impact? What did they contribute? We will have a workshop on types of literature reviews before this is due.</span>
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=== Week 8 ===
{{start of course week|2022-10-17|2022-10-19}}
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=== Week 9 ===
{{start of course week|2022-10-24|2022-10-26}}
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=== Week 10 ===
{{start of course week|2022-10-31|2022-11-02}}
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=== Week 11 ===
{{start of course week|2022-11-07|2022-11-09}}
{{assignment milestones|All required wikipedia tutorials (under week 2) must be completed}}
{{assignment milestones|Evaluate your wikipedia article}}
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Go to Wikipedia page and check:</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">if focus, scope, and subheadings are similar to what you learned.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">b)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">    </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">information you want to check/confirm (names, dates, large claims) from your own research (can you add a citation or fix something wrong).</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">c)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">areas that are already flagged as needing a citation, needing more accuracy, or seem to be opinion. This might appear as a parenthetical notation in the text or as an “this article has issues” box that begins the page (has an orange !)</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">d)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">    </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">areas that can be expanded on, clarified, or are absent (i.e., things you found in your research that are not on the page or are not discussed extensively enough). Also please consider who is speaking/being quoted/referenced i.e., are only white scholars being mentioned?</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">write text for these areas by following Wikipedia-required “neutral” tone for entries and creating full in-text and footnote citations that demonstrate where you found the information you are adding. '''Add at least a large paragraph’s worth of material throughout the entry.''' If you cannot add this much, explain your plan/annotated copy why you won’t be able to add that much material.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">e)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">things that seems really weird or wrong that you might need to flag or move to the talk space for debate.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">you cannot delete large sections of text. If an entire section seems off topic or inaccurate, plan to flag it for “talk” and note that on your annotated copy.</span>
{{assignment|Assignment - Wikipedia assessment and plan due}}
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Compose a 2-page assessment/plan paper that synthesizes your assessment of the whole page and your plan for fixing and adding things, adding text, and flagging controversial things.</span>
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=== Week 12 ===
{{start of course week|2022-11-14|2022-11-16}}
{{assignment milestones|Add text}}
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Write new text making sure you follow Wikipedia required tone for entries, and create full in-text and footnote citations (as per the citation tutorial you tool) that demonstrate where you found the information you are adding. Compose at least a paragraph’s worth of material throughout the entry in addition to edits. 

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=== Week 13 ===
{{start of course week|2022-11-21|2022-11-23}}
{{assignment milestones|Begin moving your work to Wikipedia main space and making it live}}
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Make actual changes and document everything. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Double check that your submission is “live” (aka on the main public page).</span>


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* '''NEVER copy and paste your draft of an article over the entire article.''' Instead, edit small sections at a time. Copy your edits into the article. Make many small edits, saving each time, and leaving an edit summary. '''Never replace more than one to two sentences without saving!'''
{{assignment|Assignment - Wikipedia evidence/changes documentation due}}
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You need to come up with an annotation documentation system (with a key) that shows me:</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">a)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">all the info you checked for accuracy and where you were able to confirm the info in your research materials (<span class="underline">this part is usually what students don't annotate well so be careful</span>)</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">b)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">    </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">every word you added</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">c)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">every word you deleted</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">d)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">    </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">everything you moved around on the page</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">e)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">every citation you fixed both in the text and at the bottom works cited</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">f)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">all grammar changes you made</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">g)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">    </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">all the fixes you made to make sure your page conformed to universal design.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">h)<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';">    </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">everything that you flagged or added to the talk</span>
{{assignment|Assignment - Article edits are complete and its live}}
{{in class|In class - In-class presentation}}
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Each student will briefly explain their field to the class and discuss what they did on their Wikipedia entry (5 minutes each). Consider these [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/in-class-presentation-exercise/guiding-questions Guiding questions] while preparing for your presentation. 

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=== Week 14 ===
{{start of course week|2022-11-28|2022-11-30}}
{{assignment milestones|check your entry in the watchlist, respond to feedback, make changes}}
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Over the next week, check: 

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a) the view history tab to see what has been changed about your work

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b) your talk/messages to see if Wikipedia editors have given you direct feedback 

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c) your feedback from me

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d) confirm or change the “rating” of your page [https://ask.wikiedu.org/question/73/how-can-my-students-change-the-classification-of-an-article/ (check how to do this here])

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You must make the changes I request; consider the changes an editor asks you to make (perhaps by making the changes or by creating a discussion thread in the “talk” page of the article); fix the rating; and—if there are large deletions by an editor—consider what changes to tone or citations will ensure most of your work remains live.

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{{assignment|Assignment - Follow up report due}}
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">After one week is over, upload a 1-page follow-up report of what you did. Reports can be detailed bullet lists about what tasks you were asked to do and how you fixed them (documentation here encouraged), what was changed on your page, when and how you responded, and if/why you changed your rating.</span>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you turned in your Wiki project late, this step is due 7 days after submission. If you turn your project in without 7 days before the end of finals week, you won’t be able to complete this step.</span>
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=== Week 15 ===
{{start of course week|2022-12-05|2022-12-07}}
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=== Week 16 ===
{{start of course week|2022-12-12|2022-12-14}}
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