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Course name
Cold War Science
Institution
University of Oklahoma
Instructor
Peter Barker
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
History of Science and Technology
Course dates
2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-05-04 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
50


HSCI3463 presents the history of offensive and defensive strategic weapons systems from 1945 to the present, examining the political and technological context in which they developed, and their connections to nuclear power and space exploration.

Student Assigned Reviewing
ZPotts Operation Skyshield, Cuban missile crisis
Juliarhaffner Thermonuclear weapon, Semipalatinsk Test Site, Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll
Skthung
LandonSherwood Proud Prophet, Operation Skyshield
BrightonMcMinn FleetEx '83
Kelseydbrown List of films about nuclear issues, Operation ECLIPSE
Kylie.Steiner Robert McNamara, Condoleezza Rice, The Fog of War
Joe johnston72 RDS-2, YO-160, YOG-83, ARDC-13, RDS-3, RDS-3T, RDs-9
Gray7104 Horizontal Escalation
Skylab1995 Separation of isotopes by laser excitation, RDS-1, Nuclear salt water rocket, RDS-37, Tube Alloys, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Vela Incident, Lop Nur, Operation Buster-Jangle, Pure fusion weapon
Jespergb2407 RDS-2, Vista Project, Norwegian heavy water sabotage
Johncav95 Operation Monopoly, Conrad Schumann
Scpaulsen Brezhnev Doctrine
EmilySloate Project Vista, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, RDS-2
Gaumpeh Horizontal Escalation
Thomas.Hastings Cold War espionage
Persianstallion1 Nuclear Escalation
Jarrodzdp Cold War espionage
Jayjohnson540 Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, Revolution in Military Affairs, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Strategic Defense Initiative
Markissocool Operation Paperclip, Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interceptor Subsystem (ERIS), Herbert Axster Operation Paperclip
Chadmcwhorter Inner Border Tourism
Koma2437
Katiebuckler1
Lakisha.simon Horizontal Escalation, List of films about nuclear issues, Vertical escalation, Herman Kahn, Escalation ladder
JamesSchmitt Nuclear Escalation, Robert Mcnamara
Bodk0407
Josh.Brown0790 Proud Prophet
Marebow Project Vista, RDS-2, Sergei Korolev, Caltech
GDColdWar R D /2, R-15, Temp-2s
Cel8767 Nuclear Detonation Detection System
M4llware Forensic seismology, Underwater explosion, Infrasound
ChisumStuckey ASR-11, ASR-9, Proud Prophet
Tyler Dunagan Horizontal Escalation
Slangley111 Proud Prophet, Chapman Pincher, Charlie Wilson
Dtranvu1991 Herman Kahn
StephanCarroll Thermonuclear weapon, H Bomb
Aceschu "Barbed Wire Sunday"
Amat10 Perestroika and Glasnost, Horizontal Escalation, Space Based Laser
Acun4483
Knmccor Project Sherwood, Sherwood conferences
Mjeffreys2 Pure Fusion Weapon, Global Rocket 1
VirginiaSutton Silex Systems Limited

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Tuesday, 28 February 2017   |   Thursday, 2 March 2017
Assignment - Wikipedia training - 1

All students establish Wikipedia accounts, and begin online training. Students should deliver their username to the Instructors no later than 03-02-2016.

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 7 March 2017   |   Thursday, 9 March 2017
Assignment - Wikipedia training - 2

Students continue Wikipedia online training and begin to practice editing.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 21 March 2017   |   Thursday, 23 March 2017
Assignment - Project research - 1

All students should complete Wikipedia training by 3:00pm Tuesday March 21. This week groups will begin to select pages they will construct or edit. Groups should begin research on their selected topics no later than this week.

In class -

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 28 March 2017   |   Thursday, 30 March 2017
Assignment - Project research - 2

Groups should continue research on their selected topics and begin to draft new pages or edits for existing pages. 

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 4 April 2017   |   Thursday, 6 April 2017
Assignment - Peer review

On 04-04-2017 each group will exchange drafts of its project with another group. On 04-06-2017 groups will return projects materials with suggestions for improvement and discuss them in class.

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 April 2017   |   Thursday, 13 April 2017
Assignment - Project research - 3

Groups should continue research on their selected topics, and edit draft new pages or edits for existing pages, taking into account suggestions from last week's peer review.

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 18 April 2017   |   Thursday, 20 April 2017
Assignment - Wiki project deadline

Individual students complete and upload new and edited pages no later than 3:00pm Thursday April 20.

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 April 2017   |   Thursday, 27 April 2017
Assignment - Reflective exercise TBA

TBA