Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Behavioral Ecology (Joan Strassmann)

• University: Washington University in St. Louis
• Course title: Behavioral Ecology
• Professor: Joan E. Strassmann
• Assignment start date: 28 August 2012

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Study Guides Davies, Krebs, West, An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology

Joan's website - lots of information on her research
Joan's website - videos on social evolution

This course is about understanding why organisms evolve to act the way they do. We focus on social behaviors and particularly on understanding conflict and cooperation. How do genetically distinct individuals cooperate while still favoring their own interests? We study things like the evolution of aggression, mating behavior, parental care, communication, and the complexities of living in groups and families. We will learn how natural selection operates on individuals in a social context. We study less material in more depth, with many videos. You will specialize in a certain area. In that area you will write for Wikipedia and teach high school students one Saturday. This class is a lot of work, a lot of fun, and you will never look at an animal in the same way.

Syllabus

How to write for Wikipedia

Grading

Assignment 1: Creating Account and Sandbox

Assignment 2: Joining a Project

Assignment 3: Edit Existing Entry

Assignment 4: 1st Draft

Assignment 5: Peer Review

Assignment 6: 2nd Draft

Assignment 7: Peer Review

Assignment 8: Nominate for Good Article

Assignment 9: Final Contribution

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This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Washington University supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the Fall 2012 term. Further details are available on the course page.

Expert Wikipedian: Here you can find links to all kinds of resources on creating, citing, etc

Teahouse- a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors

Ambassador program

Editing guide

Tutorial

Google Scholar

Web of science

Devin T. Dobias - Ddobias

Greg Sibbel - Gsibbel

Ruth Lewis, Biology Librarian - rulew

Student usernames should follow the ExampleUser format below.

• ExampleUser (talk · contribs)

Chapter 5: Competing for resources

• TKYung (talk · contribs), wolfyFTW (talk · contribs), Zhangt2413 (talk · contribs)
  

Chapter 7: Sexual Selection

• Cobiorower (talk · contribs), samara levine (talk · contribs), Tianyi Cai (talk · contribs)
  

Chapter 8: Parental Care and Conflict

• katheefwah (talk · contribs), ihyuan (talk · contribs)
  

Chapter 9: Mating Systems

• njoymusic2 (talk · contribs), WhitleyTucker (talk · contribs)
  

Chapter 11: Social Behavior

• Nsavalia23 (talk · contribs), Katims90 (talk · contribs), e.middlebrook (talk · contribs)
  

Chapter 12: Cooperation

• Marklxb (talk · contribs), gabriel.hassler (talk · contribs)

Chapter 13: Altruism and Social Insects

• GenesBrainsBehaviorNeuroscienceKL (talk · contribs), alexliu818 (talk · contribs), Jeremy.winkler (talk · contribs)

This table will list each article that a student is working on, and which other students will be peer reviewers for the article.