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Course name
PSY456 Psychology of Death and Loss
Institution
University of Arizona
Instructor
Mary-Frances O'Connor
Wikipedia Expert
Elysia (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Death and Loss
Course dates
2019-08-28 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-10 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
150


By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Give examples of how different cultures express grief differently, even though grief is a universal experience.
• Explain the contribution of American geographic mobility and the changing causes of death to the “invisibility” of death in our culture.
• Ask friends and family important questions about what kind of care they want at the end of their life, and explain what palliative and hospice care are.
• Recognize when someone they know shows sign of suicidal thoughts, and feel empowered to have real conversations about mental health.
• Apply developmental theories to how children, adolescents, adults, and older adults experience bereavement and approach dying.
• Communicate ideas clearly and logically in writing, whether in a quick email, a Wikipedia entry, or an essay.

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Thursday, 5 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:


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 (by 9/5 at 5pm), everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 10 September 2019   |   Thursday, 12 September 2019
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 17 September 2019   |   Thursday, 19 September 2019
Assignment - Review the rules for health topics
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Psychology

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 24 September 2019   |   Thursday, 26 September 2019
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation


Assignment - Exercise

Copyedit an article

Week 6

Course meetings
Thursday, 3 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

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 8 October 2019   |   Thursday, 10 October 2019
In class - Discussion

[[../../../training/students/thinking-about-wikipedia-discussion/thinking-about-wikipedia|Thinking about Wikipedia]]


Assignment - Peer review two articles

[[../../../training/students/peer-review|Guiding framework]]

Week 8

Course meetings
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Milestones

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.


Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 22 October 2019   |   Thursday, 24 October 2019
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

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 29 October 2019   |   Thursday, 31 October 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 11

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

Week 12

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

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 19 November 2019   |   Thursday, 21 November 2019

Week 14

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!

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