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Course description

Introduction to Psychology is an introductory overview of the field of psychology. It is an examination of behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, humanistic and biological viewpoints in psychology. The course includes learning principles and applications, motivation, emotions, stress, psychobiology, personality, abnormal behaviors and approaches to therapy. The course fulfills Associate of Arts general education requirements.

Assignment overview

  1. Read the Wikipedia Getting Started page
  2. Create an account
  3. After you are a bit more comfortable with Wikipedia you'll need to find a stub-class article in Wikiproject: Psychology that you will be improving. (Alternatively you could create a new page for a topic not yet on wikipedia, but this is considerably more challenging.)
  4. Read the Editing Wikipedia page or the chapter on editing and how to write a psychology article.
  5. Improve your stub!

Assignment timeline

This is a summary of the key due dates and the expected timeline for the Wikipedia-related assignment(s).

Week 1

In class
  • Overview of the course
  • Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
  • Basics of editing
  • Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good & bad articles
  • Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
Readings and Tutorials
Assignments (due week 2) [GRADED]

  • Create a Wikipedia account, create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course assignment page. Details here
  • To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.

Week 2

In class
  • Instructor and/or Campus Ambassadors talk about Wikipedia culture & etiquette, and introduce the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
  • Q&A session with instructor and/or Campus Ambassadors about interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing
Readings and Tutorials
Assignments (due week 3) [GRADED]

  • Critically evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's discussion page.
  • Research and list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Ask your classmates for comments.
  • Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.

If you are trying to get caught up I posted some more detailed intructions here

For next week
  • Instructor evaluates student's article selections, by week 3.

Week 3

In class
  • Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.
Video resource
Assignments (due week 4)
  • Select an article to work on and list it at the bottom of this page next to your username.
  • Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.
  • If you are starting a new article, write a 3–4 paragraph summary version of your article (with citations) in your Wikipedia sandbox.
  • If you are improving an existing article, write a summary version reflecting the content the article will have after it's been improved, and post this along with a brief description of your plans in your Wikipedia sandbox (or on the article's talk page).
  • Be sure to link your sandbox on your userpage so I can easily find it.
  • Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.
Milestone
  • All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.

Week 4

In class
  • Article ratings on Wikipedia & how to get there
  • Uploading images, and adding images to articles


Readings and Tutorials
Wiki assignments (due week 5)
  • Move sandbox articles into main space.
  • For new articles or qualifying expansions of stubs, compose a one-sentence "hook," nominate it for "Did you know," and monitor the nomination for any issues identified by other editors.
  • Begin expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
  • Select two classmates' articles that you will peer review and copy-edit. (You don't need to start reviewing yet.) Add these to the class list after your article. (e.g. MTHarden (talk · contribs) - Nun Study - Euphoria, Aphasia).
I appreciate those of you that are caught up and have already listed articles to peer-edit. I know that it stalls you out a bit if your peers haven't yet moved their work into the main space. I won't penalize you for this.

Weeks 5 & 6

In class
  • As a group, students will offer suggestions for improving one or two of the other students' articles, setting the example for what is expected from a solid encyclopedia article.
  • Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy, and the impact and limits of Wikipedia
Wiki assignments (due week 7)
  • Peer review and copy-edit the two classmates' articles you chose. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.
  • Make edits to your article based on peers' feedback.
  • If you meet the criteria then nominate your article for Good Article status. (Extra Credit)
  • Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.


Milestone
  • All articles have been reviewed by others. All students have reviewed articles by their classmates.

Weeks 7 & 8

In class
  • Students give in-class presentations about their experiences editing Wikipedia.
Wiki assignments (due week 8)
  • Add final touches to you Wikipedia article. Try to address issues from Good Article reviews.
  • Write a reflective essay (2-5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.


Milestone
  • Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading, and have submitted reflective essays.

Students

PSY-101-01

PSY-101-40

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