RLB371 Christianity on Wikipedia

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jana Valtrová, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Šárka Londa Vondráčková
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( RLA06 Christianity I || RLKA06 Christianity I ) && ( RLA07 Christianity II || RLKA07 Christianity II )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course aims at improving articles about Christianity in Czech, Slovak or English Wikipedia. Based on a broad definition of education as an open-ended lifetime process addressing society at large, the course (1) contributes to Wikipedia as an important public source of information; (2) cultivates a historical and social scientific point of view; (3) stresses the complexity of Christianity and other religions and the questionability of various sweeping statements about them; and, by extension, (4) contributes to the refinement of public debate on Christianity in particular and religion in general. Students enhance their abilities to work critically with scholarly literature, to define concepts, to identify the most important aspects of a problem, to organize information, to use references, and to edit articles on Wikipedia. The course is taught online. It accentuates transferable skills.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
  • perform bibliographic searches and choose the most reliable and relevant literature;
  • study, evaluate and process information in literature;
  • define a problem and identify its most important aspects in an encyclopedic way;
  • use footnote references correctly and efficiently;
  • understand the principle of hypertextuality;
  • edit articles on Wikipedia using the Wikipedia Core content policies, the Wikipedia formatting, and the Wikipedia citation templates.
    • Syllabus
    • Core content policies of Wikipedia, formatting, examples of articles.
    • Bibliographic searches.
    • Proposal of an article.
    • Participation in the discussion about different proposals.
    • The first version of the article on Wikipedia.
    • Monitoring of the article’s talk page on Wikipedia.
    • Finalization of the article.
    • Submission of the article.
    Literature
      required literature
    • Wikipedie: Závazná pravidla. 2001. online info
    Teaching methods
    Online discussion, partner learning, feedback on articles.
    Assessment methods
  • Partial tasks with feedback from the tutors and the teacher: bibliographic search, topic proposal, participation in the discussion about articles, first proposal of the article. final article). Non-complying with the deadline and/or quality requirements leads to the increase in required length of the article.
  • Quality of the final article (Wikipedia rules and style, good resources, good text): 100 %.
    • Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
    Study Materials
    The course is taught once in two years.
    Note related to how often the course is taught: e-learning.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Spring 2016.
    • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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