Last week I posted about an assignment in my Romanticism class, part of which requires students to add to Wikipedia’s glossary of literary terms, a potentially useful but mostly empty list. Thanks to my students, the list is now significantly less empty than it was a few months ago. I’m generally pleased with the assignment.
Last semester, in a seminar on Charles Dickens, I assigned students to update a Wikipedia page for a Dickens character. I briefly discussed the assignment on this blog in December, putting my own assignment in the context of other professors who have used Wikipedia in their classes in various ways. The exercise worked well for
One of the great things about being a new professor is the opportunity to teach a variety of new classes: graduate students usually teach only introductory or composition classes. But new courses of course means new syllabi. This week I’m putting together a syllabus for a summer course, and I realize that when designing a