Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Theorizing Culture and Politics fall 2010

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COURSE LEADERBOARD

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1	Hec7	32024	15
2	AngelaSaysHey	26645	10
3	Ace of Raves	25630	10
4	Jraytram	20874	24
5	Seanquigley	19435	4
6	Okeland	18894	5
7	Luckbethislady	17025	3
8	Klhrdy	15381	10
9	Georgetowntolondon	14032	7
10	Alexvonzu	13895	9
11	Saxa228	13676	12
12	Rew38	12359	1
13	Joko123nm	11630	6
14	Jysg23	11400	7
15	Wvhoya	11295	8
16	Odenhem	6012	6
17	Smj39	5152	3
18	Ysshim	5143	3

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Course description

Theories of Culture and Politics is a fall 2010 undergraduate course at Georgetown University taught by Rochelle Davis, intended to introduce students to core ideas for the Culture & Politics major. It examines the major theoretical issues in the study of culture and politics: race, labor, sexuality, nationalism, identity, and culture, among others.

Assignment overview

The Wikipedia component of this course is meant to engage students in the process of conducting a literature review. Students will pick a topic, research what has been written on that topic, and compose a neutral point of view article for the Wikipedia community. Students will then use the same research as a starting point form which to construct the literature review portion of their classes final project (not on Wikipedia).

Assignment timeline

23 September - Ambassadors give 45 minute introduction to editing wikipedia, and students spend the rest of the class making sandboxes on their pages, and beginning to figure out how to structure their articled/begin editing. Students work on their pages in their sandbox outside of class as homework.

14 October - Online ambassadors and any other campus ambassadors will be invited to comment on the students' sandboxes. We will publish all of the pages under construction on the courses' wiki pages. This comment period will last until 20 October.

21 October - Students will post their articles live. We are planning on dropping in whole articles, so we are going to warn the relevant Wikiprojects that these are coming on these days, but we would like them to minimize their editing of the sandboxes before we publish them live.

4 November - All of the students will pick a couple of suggested edits from the community and work on them.

18 November - All of the pages will be in the final form that will be graded by Prof. Davis.