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Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Introduction to Psychology, Part II (Steve Joordens)

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Course description edit

This course provides a general overview of topics including language, intelligence, development, motivation and emotion, personality, social psychology, stress, mental disorders and treatments of mental disorders. The most influential findings from each of these areas will be highlighted. Exclusion: PSY100H, PSY100Y, (PSY102H) Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences



Instructor and Ambassadors edit

Instructor
Professor Steve Joordens
Campus Ambassadors
Tim Cheng, Rob Walker, Ron Chu, Hanan Domloge
Online Ambassadors
~AH1 (discuss!)



Introduction to Wikipedia assignment, January 28, 2012 edit

In class
  • Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course (see below for some of the details mentioned)
  • Communication now and throughout: A separate thread in the discussion forum will present links to support material, and will become the primary context for interactions between the students and the campus ambassadors.
  • Note: This assignment is for bonus marks, and you can do it anytime between now and the final due date. We have linked up some resources in the discussion forum, and others are provided below. We leave it largely up to you to learn and employ what you need to in order to do this assignment (i.e., constructivist learning rocks!) but the discussion forum is there for any questions you might have as you do so.
Useful resource as a general intro to Wikipedia
  • Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
Wikipedia Editing basics
Referencing in Wikipedia
Did you know

Due date ... April 9 edit

This is the due date for the Wikipedia assignments ... your work up until this point will be the work that counts towards you grade. To be clear you will receive bonus credits as follow:

  • 1% for creating a Wikipedia username and linking it to the Canadian Education Program, Registering with the APS Wikipedia Initiative, and linking your student number to your Wikipedia username as Steve highlighted in class
  • 1% for editing any psychology-related article in the English language Wikipedia (an article either pulled from the list on the APS website, or one you found yourself) to include at least one sentence expanding on the article and including an appropriate citation to back up the claim made in the sentence.
  • 1% for editing an additional article on a psychology-related topic either in the English version of Wikipedia or, preferably, in another language version you feel suitably proficient to edit.



Students edit

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