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Course description: Psychological science of family structure, functioning, and relationships from pregnancy to adulthood. How people adapt to becoming a parent. The developmental and psychological impact of relationships with parents, siblings, and grandparents. The psychology and social acceptance of non-traditional family structures. The impact of difficult life events on the family. Resilience and how individuals differ in their sensitivity to familial influences.
Wikipedia assignment: Complete weekly tasks through the timeline. The tasks will prompt you to choose and article to edit and the following week the professor will be in contact with you to agree on a section to edit and expectations based on what you will be editing.
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.
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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.)
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
The professor will email you will determine which part of your chosen article you will edit.
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
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
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!
Remember that you can reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
You will review one article that you are assigned to. You will review the portion that was edited and is in your classmate's sandbox.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
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.
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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
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.