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This course (full title: Nature, Culture, & Theory: The Growth of Anthropology) is a core theory course required for all upper-division anthropology majors. It introduces and explores the history and changes in anthropological thought, from the origins of the discipline to current practice. It addresses theory across the traditional four-fields of anthropology: biological, archaeological, sociocultural, and linguistic anthropology. The culminating project is a review of the anthropological literature relevant to a given topic/issue of the student's choice, and with links to and comparisons with treatments of the topic by other disciplines.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Johnsondeh	Two-spirit	Psychoactive plant, Ethnobotany of Poland, Cognitive anthropology
Castilli	Psychoactive plant	Two-spirit, Cognitive anthropology, Ethnobotany of Poland
LilyThue	Traditional ecological knowledge	Cooking, Ethnoecology, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media
Rdow
Ericalee1217	Ethnomedicine
Vivmm13	Cognitive anthropology	Cooking, Idiolect, Traditional ecological knowledge
Leilakinson	Bog body	Demonic Males, Body culture studies, Idiolect
Shaunbp	Cooking	Sign language, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media, Traditional ecological knowledge
Cjaldana	Ethnoecology	Traditional ecological knowledge, Cooking, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media
Anthro Lover	Demonic Males	Ethnomedicine, Primitive culture, Bog body, Body culture studies, Idiolect
Mileskellam	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media
Jessemerodio	Body culture studies	Demonic Males, Bog body, Idiolect
Marlenriestra	Ethnobotany of Poland
Venturca	Primitive culture	Online community, Ethnomedicine, Demonic Males
Garzaju	Idiolect
Bergerod	Online community	Ethnomedicine, Primitive culture
MLE415	Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 15 February 2021 | Wednesday, 17 February 2021

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

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.)

Assignment - Wikipedia assignment blog

Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 5

Course meetings

Monday, 22 February 2021 | Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

In class - Discussion

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 6

Course meetings

Monday, 1 March 2021 | Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Week 7

Course meetings

Monday, 8 March 2021 | Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation

Assignment - Exercise

Copyedit an article

Assignment - Exercise

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 8

Course meetings

Monday, 15 March 2021 | Wednesday, 17 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

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Cultural Anthropology

Environmental Sciences

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 9

Course meetings

Monday, 29 March 2021

Assignment - Peer review three articles

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 10

Course meetings

Monday, 5 April 2021 | Wednesday, 7 April 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.

Week 11

Course meetings

Monday, 12 April 2021 | Wednesday, 14 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

Monday, 19 April 2021 | Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

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 13

Course meetings

Monday, 26 April 2021 | Wednesday, 28 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!

Week 14

Course meetings

Monday, 3 May 2021 | Wednesday, 5 May 2021

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!

In class - In-class presentation

Guiding questions

Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Week 15

Course meetings

Monday, 10 May 2021 | Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

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 This course (full title: Nature, Culture, &amp; Theory: The Growth of Anthropology) is a core theory course required for all upper-division anthropology majors. It introduces and explores the history and changes in anthropological thought, from the origins of the discipline to current practice. It addresses theory across the traditional four-fields of anthropology: biological, archaeological, sociocultural, and linguistic anthropology. The culminating project is a review of the anthropological literature relevant to a given topic/issue of the student's choice, and with links to and comparisons with treatments of the topic by other disciplines.
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 {{student table row|Mileskellam|[[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media]]|}}
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-{{student table row|Garzaju||}}
+{{student table row|Garzaju|[[Idiolect]]|}}
-{{student table row|Bergerod||}}
+{{student table row|Bergerod|[[Online community]]|[[Ethnomedicine]], [[Primitive culture]]}}
 {{student table row|MLE415|[[Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance]]|}}
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 * [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia Editing Wikipedia], pages 1–5
 * [https://wikiedu.org/evaluatingwikipedia Evaluating Wikipedia]
 {{assignment|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.)
 {{assignment|Assignment - Wikipedia assignment blog}}
 Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.
 {{assignment milestones|Everyone has a Wikipedia account}}
 This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
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 [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/evaluate-wikipedia-exercise Evaluate an article]
 {{in class|In class - Discussion}}
 [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/sources-and-plagiarism-discussion/thinking-about-sources-and-plagiarism Thinking about sources and plagiarism]
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 [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/content-gap-discussion/what-is-a-content-gap What's a content gap?]
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 Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
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 Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
 {{end of course week}}
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 * [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia#page=12 Editing Wikipedia], pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
 {{end of course week}}
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 Resource: [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia#page=13 Editing Wikipedia], page 13
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 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.
 {{end of course week}}
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 {{assignment|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!
 {{end of course week}}
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 * Read [https://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia#page=15 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!
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 [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/in-class-presentation-exercise/guiding-questions Guiding questions]
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