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Course name
Women in America 116-004
Institution
Bergen Community College
Instructor
Christine Eubank
Wikipedia Expert
Elysia (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Women and gender in American History
Course dates
2019-09-04 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-21 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
35


This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender relations and the experiences of women in American culture from the early colonial period to the present. Throughout the semester we will proceed in a more or less chronological fashion as we consider the interplay between women’s lived experiences and the law, politics, economics, migration, industrialization, technological advances, and consumerism. Issues of difference – racial, economic, ethnic, and sexual orientation – and their impact on notions and definitions of femininity and womanhood, and how these changed over time, as well as relations between women, will be a particular emphasis in this course. Through close readings of primary and secondary sources, print culture and various other cultural productions, we will look at the multiple ways in which women self-identified to reveal resistance to prescribed notions of femininity and womanhood and the consequences of non-conformity.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Walkidiaa Lowell Mill Girls
Sydneycrain22 African American Women in the Labor Forces
RebekahWB
Elinorh998 Women in the United States labor force from 1945 to 1950
Berg-10990 "True Womanhood in U.S. and England" Revolutionized
Stephmaure Native American women in Colonial America
Guadaabxo Sexual Harassment and Assault
Adrahakdemir Gender equality
Alisharodrigue Women in aviation
Summerrmehta Anthony Comstock
Madisonheck21 First Nations
Evelyn Mania

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 24 September 2019   |   Thursday, 26 September 2019
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 1 October 2019   |   Thursday, 3 October 2019
Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone doing this project should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 8 October 2019   |   Thursday, 10 October 2019
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 15 October 2019   |   Thursday, 17 October 2019
Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Biographies

History

Women's Studies


Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 22 October 2019   |   Thursday, 24 October 2019
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation


Assignment - Copyediting

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 29 October 2019   |   Thursday, 31 October 2019
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 5 November 2019   |   Thursday, 7 November 2019
Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 12 November 2019   |   Thursday, 14 November 2019

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 19 November 2019   |   Thursday, 21 November 2019
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!


Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Week 14

Course meetings
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.