Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/American University of Paris/We Are What We Eat - Food, Environment, and Identity in the Atlantic World (Fall 2024)
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- Course name
- We Are What We Eat - Food, Environment, and Identity in the Atlantic World
- Institution
- American University of Paris
- Instructor
- Jeff Gima
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- History
- Course dates
- 2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-12-08 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 17
An interdisciplinary course in keeping with the AUP “First Bridge” model (our First-Year Experience program at thee American University of Paris), this course is designed and team-taught by three faculty members who demonstrate for new college students the intellectual promise of collaboration across disciplines: Andrea Rosengarten (history), Manuel Caballer Gutierrez (biodiversity), and Jeff Gima (information literacy).
This fall semester course surveys global food history and biodiversity studies during the Columbian Exchange and transformations in foodways since the Industrial Revolution. We believe the Wiki Edu partnership would be an ideal format for a semester-long capstone project for students in digital literacy skills and seeing the fraught process of knowledge production in action.
In the fall, our course material will be complemented by a 3-day experiential learning trip to the city of Bordeaux that will happen half-way through the semester (October 10-13th). Our food and crop history focus on Bordeaux will be threefold: (1) the city’s entanglement with the history of sugar as a key French port in the transatlantic slave trade in the 18th century; (2) shoreline studies and transformation of Aquitaine region oysters from food of the poor to food of the rich since the 19th century; (3) viticulture history in the Bordeaux region and its future as the industry navigates climate change.
Students in our class may select a topic in food history or biodiversity of their choice, either within or beyond the confines of Bordeaux. We will guide students in this work over the course of the semester, with sessions introducing students to the Wikipedia editing environment, helping them find appropriate articles to work on, preparing them to engage with other editors, and assisting them with research supported by reliable sources. Those addressing France-based topics will also be encouraged to carry out doable on-site exploratory research for their topics in Paris, Bordeaux, or other accessible regions. They will submit their final “published” additions to Wikipedia in December 2024 and they will present their work to the class.