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Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Introduction to Study of Arab World fall 2010

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Course description edit

This is the introductory class to the Masters program in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. The class is meant to teach students how professionals in the field study the Arab world.

Assignment overview edit

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 edit

21 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.

13 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.

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

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

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

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