Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Michigan/Transnational Women's Cinema (Winter 2021)
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- Course name
- Transnational Women's Cinema
- Institution
- University of Michigan
- Instructor
- Miranda Marraccini
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Film Television Media
- Course dates
- 2021-01-19 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-04-20 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 15
What does women’s cinema signify? Is it cinema created exclusively by women, for women? Or is it cinema the puts women at its center? Concurrently, do these narratives about women privilege one type of woman over another? More importantly, how do we understand and interrogate these questions within non-western and global contexts? This course will delve into the multiple subjectivities, socio-cultural geographies, media practices and political activism that is folded into the category called ‘women’s cinema’. Beginning with an exploration of the 1970s “cine-feminism” that focused on women’s filmmaking and political activism, we will expand our discussion to transnational contexts and explore how feminist politics advocated by female and male filmmakers influence an understanding of women-oriented issues, forms, and values in circulation. We will examine women’s films produced within national and transnational geo-cultural spaces posing questions about national versus exilic or postcolonial auteur subjectivities. In doing so we will analyze the films’ aesthetics, institutional context of production, global circulation and situate them within the larger theoretical framework of feminist film theory, female vs. male authorship, postcolonial studies and transnational feminist scholarship. This course primarily focuses on Women’s cinema from the global south such as South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
Timeline
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2021 | Thursday, 28 January 2021
- In class - Course introduction
- 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:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 February 2021 | Thursday, 4 February 2021
- In class - Discussion
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 February 2021 | Thursday, 11 February 2021
- 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.)
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 February 2021 | Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- In class - Library Instruction - Finding Library Resources
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2021 | Thursday, 25 February 2021
- Assignment - Exercise
- In class - Discussion
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 March 2021 | Thursday, 4 March 2021
- 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
- In class - Discussion
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 March 2021 | Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Assignment - Keep drafting your article
- In class - In-Class Editing Session
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 March 2021 | Thursday, 18 March 2021
- Assignment - Peer review an article
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 March 2021 | Thursday, 25 March 2021
- 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 - Continue improving your article
Exercise
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
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- Tuesday, 30 March 2021 | Thursday, 1 April 2021
- 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 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 April 2021 | Thursday, 8 April 2021
- 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!
- 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!
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 April 2021 | Thursday, 15 April 2021
- Assignment - Reflective essay
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 April 2021