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- Course name
- Environmental Law II
- Institution
- University of San Francisco
- Instructor
- Aaron Frank
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Environmental Law
- Course dates
- 2016-10-08 00:00:00 UTC – 2016-12-15 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
This is the second part of a two-part course examining the basic legal setting for the protection and management of the environment. After learning the major federal statutes and constitutional principles of Environmental Law this course will explore air pollution, toxic risk legislation, international law and emerging issues in the field such as climate change. It examines how environmental law is made and applied. The course also includes material on economic analysis and how environmental policy is effectuated through the legal system.
The Wikipedia Assignment will be for each team of two students to create a new article (or substantially revise an existing article) related to the topic of Environmental Law.
Timeline
Week 1
- In class - Introduction to the Assignment (prior to our first meeting)
- Introduction to the Wikipedia part of the course
- Create user accounts, and enroll in class.
- make firstedit to an article
- Create user pages (with link to sandbox page), and experiment with markup and referencing on user sandbox page.
- Leave message on talk page of another student with signature (SavannaLumley (talk) 21:50, 22 October 2016 (UTC)).
Some articles created by students in previous classes:
California Environmental Quality Act
Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon
2008 California Statewide Truck and Bus Rule
Exemptions for hydraulic fracturing under United States federal law
Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Illinois
Habitat Conservation Plan
Climate change litigation and the California Environmental Quality Act
Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper Inc.
The Environmental Provisions of Oslo II Accords
And check out this article.
- Assignment - Wikipedia Assignment #1
- Choose a partner and topic. Submit these by editing the table here. I recommend signing up prior to the first day of class so to reserve your topic and to allow any classmates that are interested in that topic to contact you about partnering but you should have a partner and a topic no later than October 25th.
- You can create a new article or expand an existing short article. For a quick tutorial on ways to find articles click here.
- Some ways to find existing short articles:
- Go through related articles and make a list of topic ideas make a list of related articles that already exist.
- Look through these categories and their subcategories: Category:Environment stubs, Category:Start-Class Environment articles
- Go to Category:Environmental law, and look for any links that are colored dark red. You can adjust the threshold size at which links to articles appear dark red in your preferences (under "Appearance", "Threshold for stub link formatting (bytes)").
- In class -
Week 2
- Assignment - Wikipedia Assignment #2
- Submit outline/starter article by November 8th.
- Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.
- Work with Online Ambassador mentor (TBD) to polish your short starter article.
- Submit by email the names of at least two experts/professionals on the topic of your article.
Week 3
- Assignment - Wikipedia Assignment #3
- Expand your article into an a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
- Move your sandbox article into Wikipedia's main space (live articles).
- Contact experts and request feedback on article
- Peer-review and copy-edit another team's articles Due by December 5
Week 4
- Assignment - Wikipedia Assignment #5, #6 and #7
- Students teams give 10 minute in-class presentations about their article topic and their experiences editing Wikipedia, December 10 .
- Final Assignments for students
- Final peer review edits due December 13
- Final version of article due midnight December 15