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Course name
Introduction to Historical Studies
Institution
Berea College
Instructor
Rebecca Bates
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
his
Course dates
2023-03-04 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-04-28 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
14


An introduction to history as a scholarly discipline; a way of studying one aspect of human experience. It includes examination of various kinds of sources and how they are handled, principles of research, the collection of data and use of quantitative analysis, historical reasoning, interpretation and synthesis, the history of historical study, and issues raised by contemporary concerns about the uses of history.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Paigeious Native Americans in the United States
Aidan.Teague Draft lottery (1969)
Winter Autumn Fall National Storytelling Festival
Tnssjed Miners for Democracy
Veranosa Anti-Catholicism
LunaDreamer12 List of female explorers and travelers, Isabelle Sprague Smith Louise Gilman Hutchins
Raerae231 History of African Americans in Kentucky, Civil rights movement, History of Kentucky
Snake in boots Appalachian stereotypes
Wallyeatsyarn The Berea Citizen
ZMB9 Great Depression in the United States
Hodgej2 Day Law, Carl Day
PuffleHuff789 Louise Gilman Hutchins
Remindme94*

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 20 March 2023   |   Friday, 24 March 2023
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.

 

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.

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Resources:

Assignment - Choose possible topics

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

In class - Discussion

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 27 March 2023   |   Wednesday, 29 March 2023   |   Friday, 31 March 2023
Assignment - Make a small edit
Assignment - Finalize your topic and find sources

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 3 April 2023   |   Wednesday, 5 April 2023   |   Friday, 7 April 2023
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

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

History

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 10 April 2023   |   Wednesday, 12 April 2023   |   Friday, 14 April 2023

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 17 April 2023   |   Wednesday, 19 April 2023   |   Friday, 21 April 2023
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