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Course name
Transgender Social Movements
Institution
Gonzaga University
Instructor
Avery Dame
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Women's Studies
Course dates
2020-01-14 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-05-09 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
8


Though they didn’t always use that term, transgender individuals have a long history of movement-building and activism within the United States. This course explores the longer trajectory of transgender organizing within North America, and the United States in particular, studying how changing cultural and medical understandings of sex and gender impacted individuals whose presentation and identity ran contrary to these prevailing norms. For the first half of the course, we’ll examine how these individuals organized to challenge such dominant understands and advocate for their rights throughout the mid to late 20th century. In the final weeks, we’ll consider current struggles for transgender rights in light of this longer history, and what insights it might offer for future activist work.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Aweiss555 International Foundation for Gender Education
Caitlinds International Foundation for Gender Education
Nramirez5099 TGI Justice Project
Annaalgate National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
MattiseWood National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
Annekehl Sylvia Rivera Law Project
JujuColestock FTM International
Mjnorris98 FTM International

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Wednesday, 22 January 2020   |   Friday, 24 January 2020

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 27 January 2020   |   Wednesday, 29 January 2020   |   Friday, 31 January 2020
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 4

Course meetings
Monday, 3 February 2020   |   Wednesday, 5 February 2020   |   Friday, 7 February 2020
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 should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 10 February 2020   |   Wednesday, 12 February 2020   |   Friday, 14 February 2020
Assignment - Practice Edits

For this assignment, you'll complete two simple tasks:

  • Add a brief bio about your editing and course work to your Wikipedia User Page and include some appropriate use of styling (underlines, bolding, bullet points, numbered list, etc.) (see instructor's page as an example).
  • Leave a comment on at least two classmates' talk pages (see instructor's page as an example).

Once complete, submit a link to your userpage in Blackboard.

Week 6

Course meetings
Wednesday, 19 February 2020   |   Friday, 21 February 2020
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Select one of the pages in the Category:Transgender and transsexual writers, and evaluate it using the prompt questions in attached "Evaluate Wikipedia" training module. While the training module will suggest you use Wikipedia's built-in Evaluation tool, for this assignment I'd like your written evaluation submitted to Blackboard. You may copy-paste the questions into a word doc, then give brief, one to two sentence responses for your evaluation. You are not required to complete the Optional Activity at the end of the training module.

For 10 pts extra credit, you may also submit this evaluation to the built-in tool linked in the training module (please let me know via e-mail if you do complete this evaluation).

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 24 February 2020   |   Wednesday, 26 February 2020   |   Friday, 28 February 2020
Assignment - Minor Edit Practice

For this assignment, you will get a little practice working with a live Wikipedia article. Select one of the pages in the Category:Transgender and transsexual writers, and make at least two simple, minor edits, such as editing grammar or cleaning up sentence structure. Since these edits are about getting practice making and committing changes, as well as leaving edit comments, your edits should not update the page's content or citations.

Once you've made your edits, submit a link to the page you edited, as well as a short write-up (two to three sentences) explaining what changes you made to the page.

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 2 March 2020   |   Wednesday, 4 March 2020   |   Friday, 6 March 2020
Assignment - Select Article for Expansion

For this assignment, you and your partner will select the organization whose article you'd like to update. We'll discuss each of the organizations in class ahead of time, so you're a bit more familiar with their focus and history. On Friday, I will check to make sure you and your partner have both selected the correct articles.

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 16 March 2020   |   Wednesday, 18 March 2020   |   Friday, 20 March 2020

Week 10

Course meetings
Monday, 23 March 2020   |   Wednesday, 25 March 2020   |   Friday, 27 March 2020
Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

History

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Week 11

Course meetings
Monday, 30 March 2020
Assignment - Article Proposal

Using the proposal form posted to Blackboard, submit a proposal for how you will update your selected article. This proposal should include:

  • ** Summary of Chosen Page Topic, including:
      • **** Organization History
        • Signifigant Members
        • Notable Accomplishments
    • Proposed Structure for Page, Including possible new content areas
    • Citation List
    • Plan and Schedule for Writing and Editing Page

Week 12

Course meetings
Monday, 6 April 2020   |   Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.


Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 13

Course meetings
Wednesday, 15 April 2020   |   Friday, 17 April 2020
Assignment - Continue improving 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.


Assignment - In-Progress Edits

By April 15, you will submit a link to your in-progress article (in your Sandbox) for me to review via Blackboard. This is primarily a check-in, to make sure work is proceeding on-time and to offer preliminary feedback.

Week 14

Course meetings
Monday, 20 April 2020   |   Wednesday, 22 April 2020   |   Friday, 24 April 2020
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 15

Course meetings
Monday, 27 April 2020   |   Wednesday, 29 April 2020   |   Friday, 1 May 2020
Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.


Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

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

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13


Assignment - Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 16

Course meetings
Monday, 4 May 2020   |   Wednesday, 6 May 2020   |   Friday, 8 May 2020
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
Milestones

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