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Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Theorizing Culture and Politics fall 2010

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COURSE LEADERBOARD

Rank Username Characters added Active days
1 Hec7 32024 15
2 AngelaSaysHey 26645 10
3 Ace of Raves 25630 10
4 Jraytram 20874 24
5 Seanquigley 19435 4
6 Okeland 18894 5
7 Luckbethislady 17025 3
8 Klhrdy 15381 10
9 Georgetowntolondon 14032 7
10 Alexvonzu 13895 9
11 Saxa228 13676 12
12 Rew38 12359 1
13 Joko123nm 11630 6
14 Jysg23 11400 7
15 Wvhoya 11295 8
16 Odenhem 6012 6
17 Smj39 5152 3
18 Ysshim 5143 3
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Course description

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Theories of Culture and Politics is a fall 2010 undergraduate course at Georgetown University taught by Rochelle Davis, intended to introduce students to core ideas for the Culture & Politics major. It examines the major theoretical issues in the study of culture and politics: race, labor, sexuality, nationalism, identity, and culture, among others.

Assignment overview

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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

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23 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.

14 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.

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

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

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

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List of students and their articles

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