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Portal:Literary Studies

Welcome to the Department! Part of Language and Literature

 * For studies of the English Language itself, please see English Language.

Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or works, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry.

Departmental Description
The study of literary texts (writing judged by a culture to be important for its aesthetic, content or contextual qualities) is an ancient discipline practiced for more than a millenium in cultures around the globe. Within conventional university courses, literary study is typically organised through recourse to a "canon" or list of literary works from the past deemed to be important for a contemporary student. However, the nature and composition of these canons has varied widely throughout the history of literary study within university, with new authors and literary forms continually being introduced alongside reconsideration of the conception and valuation of canons in general. Wikiversity's Literary Studies program offers discussions of all kinds of literature: from ancient to modern and postmodern periods, examining all kinds of writers, in order to give the wikischolar a full view of the development of human writing.

Here, we will not only focus on the analysis of literature, but also the creation of it. Towards this end, we offer both literary studies and creative writing courses in a variety of forms.

Search around below and feel free to sign up as a Wikiversity member in order to take part in classes we offer. As more instructors become interested, we'll offer more and more classes.

For those of you interested, please direct yourself to the Master Plan, which is currently 'in progress'.

How to Begin Studying Literature
1. Use the reading list links below to deepen your knowledge and/or develop your own course of study.

a. The only way to acquire a literary education is to start reading on your own. The materials here can help you, but the point of reading literature is to learn to analyze the writing and interpret the meaning(s) of the book yourself.

b. If you are a high-school graduate, you should be able to make your way through any of the texts on our reading list. If you are still in high-school go to the high school reading list for some ideas (list is under construction).

c. How to get started? Just take a look at the reading list link. Pick 3 titles that look interesting, go to the wikipedia link that tells you something about the authors, borrow the book from the library, or access it on line at Project Gutenberg, and begin.

{Little known fact: often the Ancient Literature is easier to read and understand than later literature. Try reading the Norton Anthology selections of the Iliad or the Odyssey, or portions of the world's oldest "novel", the Epic of Gilgamesh.}

2. Keep a reading journal. You should do this anytime you read a work of literature, and the process will help you become a better writer along the way. Take notes about your reading in a spiral notebook. You may take notes as you read, or wait until you've completed a chapter. Then write down your impressions of the characters, the action, the "style" (way the characters talk and the words the author uses), the feelings that the author seems to want to invoke, and the mood that s/he is trying to create.

 * Reading Lists
 * Writing Centre

Department news

 * 23 August 2006 - Department founded!

Degree plans
See: Degree plan

Streams
See: Stream plan

Literary Studies
The Department of Literary Studies aims to study, discuss, and explore the significance of textual cultures in both national and international contexts from their earliest traceable beginnings in the Middle East to the contemporary e-book and beyond. We will survey both the Western canon and the burgeoning "canon" of non-Western writings. The term "literature" is to be understood quite widely and may include such written forms as the graphic novel and the pulp novel.

Creative Writing
The basic belief of the writing department is that in order to write, one must read. The following courses should aid you in writing your own work via sections in the specific levels of writing. There are (or will be, hopefully) "instructors" in the Workshop sections to help with private writing, etc. If you have any questions, please use the discussion page within a subject or within the school.

 * Creative Fiction Workshops
 * Creative Non-fiction Workshops
 * Composition
 * Research Work
 * Biography & Autobiography
 * Journalism
 * Poetry Workshops
 * Screenwriting/Playwriting Workshops

Units
A full list of units, in alphanumeric order by course code

Get to work writing units! Simply make a link to the name of the unit (units are independent pages) and start writing! See: Unit plan

Introductions/Survey Courses
Proposed units, Literary studies stream

I. Introduction: What is Literature and Why should I care? -- geared to frustrated high-school students, high school graduates, and adults of all ages who just never quite got what the fuss was about books (but who know how to read and suspect they're missing out on something worth knowing)

reading circles and discussions around:

 * what questions should I ask myself while I'm reading?
 * how to read a poem
 * why are novels so long?
 * who decides what is trash and what is "literature"?
 * what books should you start with if you want to understand and appreciate literature?

II. Introduction to World Literature 1, 2, 3, and 4 -- this course conducts a college-level historical survey of some of the most recognized, controversial, influential and sometimes banned written work from around the world.

World Literature 1 -- the Ancient World to the Western Middle Ages

World Literature 2 -- The Western Middle Ages to the 18th Century

World Literature 3 -- Literatures of the European Enlightenment Project, the emergence of colonial literature in the 2nd and 3rd worlds, and the literatures of global industrialization

World Literature 4 -- the 20th and 21st Centuries

Advanced Literary Studies
A. some possible learning circles involving theories of literature include:

 * basic lit theory learning circle -- textual criticism and introductions to aesthetics

 * learning circle on race, gender and class -- feminist and minority criticism; marxist and post-marxist approaches to literature

 * learning circle on structuralism and semiotics -- theories of language and their relationship to the study of literature and semiotics (the science of signs).

 * learning circle on psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to literature -- from Aristotle to Zizek

B. Literature-specific learning circles may revolve around themes, historical moments, national movements, specific authors, and/or problems:

 * The environment in contemporary world literature
 * Literature of the Napoleonic Wars
 * Dada and Surrealism
 * James Baldwin and Gertrude Stein
 * War and Peace in African Literature

Undergraduate

 * LS100 - Introduction to Literary Study
 * LS100A - Introduction to Literary Studies --yangjustinc
 * LS101C - Rhetoric and Composition I
 * LS_1102C - Rhetoric and Composition II
 * LS 3000 - Introduction to English Studies
 * LS 3320 - Shakespeare and the Renaissance
 * LS 3320A - Shakespeare and the Renaissance
 * LS 3600C - Advanced Composition -- JustinLillich
 * LS 3610W - Introduction to Fiction
 * LS 3655C - Web Writing -- JustinLillich
 * LS 3700R - Advanced Rhetoric -- JustinLillich
 * LS 375CR - Introduction to Creative Writing --
 * LS 3810C - Introduction to Technical Writing -- JustinLillich
 * LS 4400W - Introduction to World Literature
 * LS 4401W - Topics In World Literature
 * LS 4410F - French Literature
 * LS 4420R - Russian Literature
 * LS 4430AS - Asian Literature
 * LS 4440C - Canadian Literature -- measly pawn
 * LS 4500E - Special Topics In Literature and English Studies
 * LS 4501E - T. S. Eliot -- Timothy J Scriven
 * LS 4590E - Topics in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
 * LS 5000E - 20th Century British Poetry --
 * LS 5001E - 20th Century British Novel --
 * ALTU???: J.R.R. Tolkien -- Malecasta
 * LS 5002AM - 20th Century American Poetry --
 * LS 4780AM - Twentieth-Century American Novel -- bobthebookworm
 * LS 4790AM - Topics in American Literature
 * LS 4791AM - Political Fiction of the 20th Century -- JustinLillich
 * ALTU???: Edgar Allan Poe -- measly pawn
 * Engl 4800 - Topics in Advanced Creative Writing
 * Engl 4800 - Poetry --
 * Engl 4800 - Fiction -- JustinLillich
 * Engl 4990 - Senior Seminar and Thesis Class
 * Engl 4990 - 20th Century Poetry --
 * Nonkilling Linguistics

Graduate

 * Engl 5000 - Introduction to Topics in English
 * ALTG???: Epic Poetry
 * ALTG???: Romantic Poetry
 * William Blake -- measly pawn
 * ALTG???: Victorian Poetry
 * ALTG???: Modernist Poetry
 * ALTG???: Postmodern Poetry
 * Engl 5150 - Contemporary Poetry
 * Engl 5800 - Writing Workshops
 * Workshops Available
 * JustinLillich
 * [[User:JustinLillich#Monday|Monday
 * Nonkilling Linguistics

Introductions/Survey Courses

 * English Literature Until 1700
 * English Literature From 1700
 * American Literature Until 1865
 * American Literature From 1865
 * English Postmodernist Literature -- measly pawn
 * Multicultural Literature In America

Advanced Literary Studies

 * English Literature
 * Anglo Saxon writing
 * Medieval literature
 * The birth of the English novel
 * Georgian literature
 * Victorian literature
 * First World War poetry
 * Early 20th century English literature
 * English modernist literature
 * Shakespeare
 * American Literature
 * Early Period
 * Modern Era
 * Evolution of American Narrative Fiction -- Bobthebookworm
 * Post Colonial literature
 * Literary Theory and Criticism
 * Computer Based Literature

Creative Writing and Literature (Graduate Level)
The basic belief of the writing department is that in order to write, one must read. The following courses should aide you in writing your own work via sections in the specific levels of writing. There are (or will be, hopefully) "instructors" in the Workshop sections to help with private writing, etc. If you have any questions, please use the discussion page within a subject or within the school.

 * Creative Fiction Workshops
 * Creative Non-fiction Workshops
 * Research Work
 * Biography & Autobiography
 * Journalism
 * Technical Writing
 * Poetry Workshops
 * Screenwriting/Playwriting Workshops

Web Writing
The basic elements of writing for the web will be covered with a wide range of materials. Since the study of the internet and writing in that medium are fairly new, the course is designed as a means of trailblazing education. Those who study it now will be read in later years and the process will inevitably go from there. In this course of study, students will be covering the following:

 * Weblogs
 * Uses in the Academic Setting
 * Study of Concepts Regarding Weblogs
 * Wikis
 * Collective Educational Tools
 * The Science of Community
 * Composition with the Computer
 * Theories and Rhetoric of the Web
 * Close Reading and Editing of the Internet

Technical Writing
After you finish studying literature, you may need a job to pay back your student loans. Have a look at Technical writing.

References/Resources
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!

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Wikipedia

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Wikibooks
Works in progress - these texts are currently at __Department Name___:
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Web Resources

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Research projects
This feature of Wikiversity will be implemented later pending further discussion.

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this department, you can list your name here (this can help small departments grow and the participants communicate better; for large departments a list of active participants is not needed).
 * General
 * Hoopydink
 * WendyB
 * Literary Studies
 * GKLeung
 * Gwythoff
 * JustinLillich
 * Smithgrrl
 * Marleen Spierings
 * Timothy J Scriven
 * measly pawn
 * Verin Sedai
 * Jeyaganesh T S
 * yangjustinc
 * Creative Writing
 * Matt Trainer
 * Writing with Technology
 * JustinLillich

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I have listed your resources in the School of Language and Literature resource catalog--please list any new resources there! Thanks! Also, some of your courses would (I think) be better suited to the Writing Center...maybe both departments should link? Thanks again, --Trinity507 04:07, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Things that need doing

= Things that need doing=
 * Create some Degree plans and streams: see Degree planning for details. See also How to use boilerplate for help.  You have all the material already, and this will clear up the page and make it more accessible
 * Renumber courses in line with the recommendations on Naming_conventions, or come and discuss the course codes with us (I've renumbered any courses I migrated)
 * Inventory of Lecturers: I suggest that you move this information to the individual user pages, and link there from here the Active participants section
 * Take note of the following proposed guideline What Wikiversity is not, especially the note about not conferring titles. See also discussion at Creation of Free Online University.
 * Make a revised master plan

Master Plan
Those interested in what I am saying may make additions below this.

First of all, I'm very excited by what's going on in the voting for Wikipedia. While I won't say it's a sure thing, I feel like those voting for it will be happy.

Second, if we're going to be moving to our own place, we've got to change some things around here.

1. English is but one language of the world. While we may end up having some English centered courses being that this Wiki so far exists in English, we must expand! This means changing our name, I believe, to the School of Literary Studies and making our courses titled "SLES 1001" or whatever it may be. This will require work in that many courses with pages will have to change.

2. We must absorb the Rhetoric and Comp courses as these are the basic foundation of this department and we cannot afford separate banners.

3. I realize "administration" may be a bad idea, but I think there must be some leadership and some direction. I realize I've been doing a lot of work with this school, but that doesn't mean that I am the head or should be.

4. We need a regular and dedicated staff. People have been coming and going with all this, and we need it to stop. We must find a way that people who are willy-nilly with the school no longer have access to major change abilities.

I'm happy to help out here--Smithgrrl 17:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

5. Have a process by which to keep up with any possible students.

6. Have a process by which to gauge our students.

are students going to be assigned "grades" or would instructors want to do the uc santa cruz, hampshire route and do narrative comments? the latter is certainly more innovative, but is also more time consuming.--Smithgrrl 17:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

7. A literary publication for the Wikiversity based out of this department seems like a wonderful idea! We could take the best of things from courses here (papers, compositions, etc.) and have a page for folks to go and read what's coming out of our department and from the Wiki community!

that's a great idea, although, since wikiversity is planned to be so huge, coordinating might be difficult. it might make more sense to have a literary/crw journal for the moment, which then reflects the work done in this department.--Smithgrrl 17:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Please, if you have suggestions, add them. If you think my ideas are stupid, say why!

Atrivedi, the hardest working guy in SLES, and self-proclaimed interim chair

Course numbers
Down the page, I talk a little about this. I think that, since we're not within the framework of the physical university, the numbering system should not follow the same conventions. That being said, what are some ideas that people have about this? Personally, when I wrote the initial ideas down, I didn't foresee having course numbers like a traditional university. I'm a convention shrugger. So, in this postmodern, hypertext reality, what would work better? JustinLillich 04:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

i'm making all courses LS with a letter suffix that indicates english (E), world (W), composition and rhetoric (C), and so on. this makes for a more unified look. more to come...--Smithgrrl 01:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Number of courses
There's simply too many courses, right now we need to get the basics functioning. Therefore, I propose that we radically reduce the number of courses. My proposal is that all courses after the three hundreds which haven't already had some work done on them should be elminated. Yes it's a scale back, but I think it's necessary.

I agree. What's the point of courses that have nothing in them? I'll take a few down, and maybe clean up the others (if necessary).

OMouse 04:00, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Agree too. I got a bit carried away :(.  Have at OMouse! Atrivedi

Perhaps we could get rid of all the "special topics in" courses and simply have "Russian liteature" "French Liteature" etc.

 * Fair enough. I just put those on in recent days, again, getting carried away.  Consider them gone!  Atrivedi

Speaking of too many courses, why the "casual learning" stuff? Why isn't the rest of it casual learning, too? :) Atrivedi

I made the casual learning course because the material I intend to cover isn't rigrous enough for university, wikiversity, despite the name, should be a place for all learning. It's the spirt of wikipedia, don't worry, I'll take care of it.

Comments on the 'Master Plan'
An emphasis on writing and the art of creativity should be a major priority.

 * Who is the readership/audience for all of this? And if you are talking about teaching writing then real world consult should be sought, not just reliance on academic opinions. Author Salon (discuss • contribs) 00:23, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Which is why there's a separate faculty listing for Creative Writing. I think I've put more work into that area than any other.  There was/is a plan for web based writing courses also.  Atrivedi

 * I want to change the name if this school to reflect a wider range of literature and writing, not simply English. Should be something like "The School of Arts and Letters" or something like that.  There still is a web based writing course in the works.  I will take responsibility to build up the quality and integrity of the school.  I lost sight of what I wanted to do with this place because their was no interest until someone came along.  Now that there is an interest, I feel that it's my duty to work on this with as much dedication as I can muster.  Also, it helps to have something like this going since I'll be a working PhD and in the field and can use this as a jumping off point all around the academic world. JustinLillich 04:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I think I prefer School of Literary Studies, and that way it can be everything, from various languages, but including the Creative/Web Writing stuff we're so interested in. Atrivedi

 * school of literary studies sounds good to me, and I agree totally that we need to globalize and comparatize the "course" offerings. do you want specific courses put on the page?  i have more or less loosely organized seminar ideas, but i can certainly lend a hand with creating actual courses.  --Smithgrrl 17:11, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

INVENTORY OF LECTURERS
I suggest everyone puts here their name, their age, their levels of qualification, their areas of knowledge, how much work they are willing to put in and into what courses, what other things they'd be willing to do for wikiversity etc. (Alphabetize, please.)

Name-GKLeung
Age-20 Qualifications-Working B.A. (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Warwick; Possible M.A. English, University of Warwick

Areas of Knowledge-British Theatre History (c.1600-Present); Postcolonial Literature; Modern and Contemporary British Literature; Satire; Comparative Studies in French and English Poetry; Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Arts and Social Sciences.

Name-Justin Lillich
Age-27 Qualifications-B.A. English/Creative Writing, University of Kansas 2003; M.A. English: Rhetorical Theory, Hypertextual Literature, Bemidji State University 2006. PhD work on the horizon. Areas of Knowledge-Hypertextual & Nonlinear Fiction, Critical Theory, Rhetorical Theory, Pedagogy, Teaching Writing with Technology, Computer Literacies, Postmodern Literary Theory, Linguistics Theory, Wiki and Blog programming, web content writing. I am willing to- In terms of this school, I will oversee the course materials and quality of the written discussion. I will also be on the look out for teachers in certain areas (never can have too many...) Will also handle day to day editing and take on individual student writers for Independent Study courses based in my areas of knowledge. JustinLillich 03:25, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Name-Michael Neff
Age-59 Qualifications-Author of YEAR OF THE RHINOCEROS by Red Hen Press, owner and director of Algonkian Writers Conferences and Events, editor of Del Sol Press, publisher of Double Room Literary Journal and The Potomac Journal of Poetry and Politics, literary agent with AEI Films and Books, editor contributor to The Writer's Edge (a writer blog), short fiction and poetry writer whose work has appeared in national journals such as Conjunctions and North American Review, among many others.

Areas of Knowledge-the mechanics and nuances of creative writing as they pertain to the successful planning and writing of the modern genre and upmarket novel.

Name-measly pawn
Age-21 Qualifications-Working B.A. (Hons) English Lit and World History, Laurentian University (2006) Areas of Knowledge-Romantic Literature (Spec. William Blake, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"), Postmodern Literature, American Literature (Spec. Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain), Canadian Literature (Spec. Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, others), and some Children's Literature.
 * I am willing to contribute what I can as often as I can. It's a learning process that can work both ways and its benefits can be plentiful if the committment is there.Measly pawn 12:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Name-Thesaurus
Age-20 Qualifications-Currently completing (2008): B.A. English Literature, B.A. Philosophy, Minor Linguistics, Minor Classics (Latin) Areas of Knowledge-Victorian and 19th century Literature (esp. Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and other prose/essayists); working knowledge of the following: literary theory, literary analysis, poetics, early American literature, Anglo-Saxon literature, Jewish-American fiction. I am willing to create a Victorian literature course, which I think is very necessary for the school. I'm not sure I can currently run a class (possibly at a future date), but I'm willing to write lessons, commentary, and syllabi. I would like to write as much as I can in all my areas of knowledge. I could grade essays if necessary.Thesaurus 04:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Name-Timothy J Scriven
Age-18 Qualifications-no qualifications, keep that in mind. Areas of knowledge-Philosophy ( pretty much analytic only, and an extremely crude knowledge of even this area), T.S Eliot, basic Poetics ( emjabment, alliteration etc), and only very little in these areas

I am willing to-I am willing to put quite a bit of work in, but my knowledge is at this stage limited, I'll do minor edits, suggest ideas and maintain my T.S Eliot page Other stuff I'll do for wikiversity-I'll heckle my teachers into contributing some notes.

I'd like to state in this edit that I do not consider myself competent to run a bona fide literature course at any level. I would like the opportunity to create "courses" that are basically reading lists with some suggested essay questions ( like my T.S Eliot course) mainly to help high school students access some related material to what they are reading in school to give them something to talk about in their exams and in class. I feel that wikiversity's current aims are a little too lofty and though I was enthusiastic at first and I am overall very sceptical about the project. I think that in addition to trying to run "university" courses we should also aim for the currently more plausible role of creating the sort of courses I mentioned earlier, aimed mostly at directing the reader to much more competent authorities in the area than ourselves, and that a special section should be created for these courses. I think that if we are to run courses we need to set up guidelines so that only those who can prove that they are at least graduate students may run courses though others should feel free to design them. Furthermore I think we need clear hierarchies, with those with degree's having more authority than those without and those with higher degree's having authority over those with bachelor degrees( though proving you had the relevant degree would be a problem of course) and possibly those with doctorates having authority over those with master's degree's as well.

I also think that we should make sure that people doing courses know that it is “not for real”.

Name-Smithgrrl
Age-52 Qualifications- B.A. English Literature, Smith College, M.A. Comparative Literature, Washington University, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel HIll. Specializations: English, French and German literature: the European 18th Century, Women's Literature, Jewish Literature, science fiction, world literature in translation, metafiction. honored and thrilled to be working on this project. i am a prettty experienced teacher and curriculum designer, so i'm happy to help very actively in formulating a basic curriculum.

yes!
Hi, I am Timothy J Scriven ( that's my user name) I've got the first course ready. It's about T.S Eliot and it's ready to be taken right now ( though more will be added of course), it's not really intended to be taken as a course as such, its a glorified reading list with some essay topics but it would be useful for private study. It's true that the course I created isn't that good, but I am sure the faults will be ironed out by other users. it is exciting, Anyone else feeling exuberant about the possibilities of wiki's and Wikiversity?

Seriously though any critical comments on our first course?

Note, I modified the above to clarify what I meant, to add a touch of realism and because all the exclamation marks and exuberance were embarassing.

General SLES Discussion
Ok, I recommend that there be a course on Logic, namely Fallacies. This kind of knowledge should help people avoid them or at the least recognize them. Sometimes people understand that there is something wrong with someone's logic but cannot put it into words. We must give them those words and write something on this. It can be argued that it belongs in philosophy, but it is most applicable in writing. I'm going to start writing some material on it and we can move it if we have to. --OMouse

Whoever changed the "decrees" thing, thanks, but Wikiversity is calling them "decrees" and until I hear differently, I will address them as such. This is why there are quotes around it. Thanks and I hope you'll continue to help out and be interested. --Atrivedi

Having changed the name of the school to School of Literature and English Studies, I feel it will bring a bit more credibility to our subject, while not giving up on our goal. Creative Writing is still an important part of our course offerings, but that's within Literature and English Studies. --Atrivedi 19:40, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Good Job!
The school is coming along very nicely. I look forward to seeing its progression.

No one will like this idea, but
Um, maybe we could have a postmodernism and it's critics course. Challenges to certain forms of postmodern theory are becoming more and more common ( i.e Eagleton, Habermas) if the course were done well it could be quite intresting. Ideally it wouldn't force either view down your throat, but allow you to make up your own mind. I've never seen a course like this offered by an english department, so we'd be at the forefront!

Figures disscused could include all the cannnonical postmodernists ( Derrida, Krivesta) juxtaposed with the critics of various forms of postmodernism ( Chomsky, Eagleton, Habermas).

I like it. Excellent idea. But! You have to watch out for fallacies in the writing. Let's start. (I like Chomsky myself, probably why that sounds like a great idea).

OMouse 15:02, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Could this fall under the Literary Theory stuff that I either have up or took down recently? Put it back up and design a course!!!  Engl 4900 is a prefered number.  OR you could list it as an Engl 4500 Topics Class.  Either one, but keep it to one of those, please!  Atrivedi

this is a great example of why we may want to rethink the "english" rubric. habermas is german, kristeva is bulgarian and writes in french, etc. etc. but those folks are important so by all means let's do 'em!--Smithgrrl 17:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Technical writing
Many of the articles in Wikibooks and its siblings are trying to explain science and technology to non-scientists and non-technologists. A course on how to write such articles properly would be immediately applicable and is desperately needed. GreatWhiteNortherner 00:39, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * While not my area of expertise, I can certainly figure something out. Or if someone else is interested in doing it, let me know. Also, we're going to have a department dealing in Web publishing, etc. While not the same as technical writing, it can certainly encompass all that.AT

WE NEED HELP!!!
In order to make this school one of the best that Wikiversity has to offer, I would very much like to see some professionals in the English departments around the country and hopefully the world fill this school with much discourse on the subjects that we have outlined. I would also like to invite anyone with project ideas to submit them to the wiki. I think this can shape up to be a very interesting department! ~JustinLillich

 * I absolutely agree, but where to go? People seem to be dead around this place and kicking them into gear seems to be difficult.  Go with whatever ideas you have and any help from me you have with you. ~Amish

Yes, if a person wants to help, what next?

What about names?
In the spirit of keeping this a reputable institution, should we be using our real names? I can certianly change mine if this is not the case, otherwise I would like it very much if people knew who we were and who they were receiving this information from. ~JustinLillich

 * I thought about that and if you're up for it, we can certainly do it. I mean, I'm using my user name like you are, in that it's basically my name anyways.  I figure if folks are interested, they can always click and see my name.  Amish

i can certainly use my real name, although i am employed at a university, and would prefer in some ways to keep that identity separate from that one. thanks.--Smithgrrl 17:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * i've had some more thoughts about this, and i actually have some concerns about the "reputable" institution idea. I think it's perhaps useful to remember what the origins of the "university" as most of us know it are.  From what i've read -- the "university" as we commonly think of it (and that some of us attended) is a Western European institution that grew out of the scholastic movement in the Catholic Church. It was extremely rigid and hierarchical, and that structure remains in place today (at least at the research university and in most 4 year colleges) in the rankings of faculty (lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, full professor) and in the ways those faculty are valued by the institution (tenured versus untenured faculty for example). I think one of the biggest challenges facing the framers of wikiversity is to devise communities and strategies that do not reinscribe the traditional hierarchies of the university, and that we just don't make a cyber-clone of the university's very limited modalities of knowledge, expertise, mastery, "excellence" and so on. This sounds obvious, but in practice (at least in my experience), it's actually quite difficult for most of us to think outside the box of our own intellectual formation.

my point being -- we aren't "professors" (a title that indicates our allegiance to this system of hierarchy) and consequently we don't have to be any more "reputable" than the next guy/gal (that's how wikipedia works, and I don't see how or why wikiversity should work any differently).

the course structure that we have in place so far is a case in point. I think we need to change the rubric from ENGLISH to LITERARY STUDIES (LS) and number the courses accordingly. If folks want an English sub-rube, that's fine, but as I posted elsewhere and as I think Amish notes, lit sure doesn't begin and end with English lit. So, I think those "names" need to be rethought also.--Smithgrrl 01:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Granting Decrees from the SLES
I believe in rigorous thought and evidence of this thought being added into the collective. That being said, I think that this course of study would be marked by extensive discourse and directed discussions toward that end. I would really like to see the students break some ground as they learn the in and out of the subjects they are studying. Without going into it with them, let them write the way toward the completion of the course. It won't take much on our part. In fact, it's going to be pretty simple for us to lead them to it. --JL

Request
I liked the way you made this school. I would just like to ask permission if I could imitate the way you made this school for the other schools. May I?

 * In what way?

Help with this section
What would it take to get onboard with this project especially in the English/Literary Studies section? Bob - Apr. 21, 2005

Well, here ya go. Thanks, Bob.

'Degrees' Available
According to the Some Ideas About Wikiversity section on "degrees", the idea is to have a sort system where our department can give you a certificate. Here is what they say and what we're working on.

"Attempting to address all useful fields of knowledge and different educational degrees requires some form of organization. An idea submitted by Aaron - WikiVersity will confer "Degrees" to those that meet demanding knowledge-acquisition standards in the field of their choice below.

 * Basic School - conferrer of Bachelor's Degrees?
 * Intermediate School - conferrer of Master's Degrees? Why not? Should it be also called Wikiversity?(sic.)
 * Wikiversity - conferrer of the Wh.D. Degree (Doctor of Wikilosophy)"

What I think I would like to see is a B.A. degree is English, an M.A. in English, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and Wh.D.'s in English, Creative Writing, with possible additions being certificates (such as British Studies) and degrees in Rhetoric.

The vote
This english department is coming along nicely. However, if wikiversity is rejected from media-wiki, all the stuff we have written doesn't matter. Please vote on the wikiversity, and vote yes!

Creator is back
I created this portion of the wikiverse quite a long time ago and drop in from time to time to see what is happening. I have a wealth of course material that I will be posting up here and most of it deals with non-linear storytelling through the computer. It's something that hasn't much scholarship and I feel that this course of study needs something like that. It seems that this endeavour is pulling through fairly well and will grow exponentially in the future. I'll begin posting as soon as the schedule permits in the real world. Sorry this has suffered for so long. ~JustinLillich

New Student
I am focusing on improving my writing. I desire to start with the basics and am looking for assistance from people on this site. My undergrad involved little writing, nor does my professional life. There are websites and books available; however, I decided to look for help here because not only do you have the knowledge, but you are keenly focused on how to set up the process of learning.

My schedule is flexible and I am somewhat of an interesting character, so if anyone is considering helping out, please post a reply. Your posts are appreciated.

Charles. 21:31, 17 February 2006 (UTC)Charles

Hi Charles --- wonderful that you want to work on your writing. Here is a heavy edit of the paragraph you just sent. Look at the corrections, and file them away for future use. The only way to write well is to write alot, so thanks for this good beginning and keep on going. You might want to keep a diary to help you stay in the writing zone (a page a day, HANDWRITTEN can make a big difference).

note these changes:

I am focussing on improving my writing. I would like to/wish to start with the basics and am looking for assistance from people on this site. My undergraduate studies did not involve much writing, nor does my professional life.

 * "Desire" does not usually get used with an infinitive verb like "to start." Better use is "want " or "wish"
 * The word "nor" has to follow a phrase that has a negative word in it, like "not".

Why not tackle one of the books on the English reading list and try your hand at a book review? somebody on this site will look at it... --Smithgrrl 04:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thinking about a change of scenery...
The day I created this thing, I was bumming around on the net and found that wikiversity didn't have a school for literature and writing. Now that I see that there was no wikiversity to begin with, I'm thinking that we could transport this thing to book form, kind of an academy/book format. I have been toying with the idea for sometime of creating a book that acts as a school as well, where the students create the text by the direction of the teachers involved. Anyone have any ideas toward this? --JustinLillich 04:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Also, about all the courses...
I have been thinking about this, but I also read a post from earlier. I am going to change the amount of courses, setting up the school in three basic fields of study. This should not only work on the seminar system, focused on individual writers and writing itself, but also the teaching of writing and the use of writing in many other fields not specific to the English department. Hence, we should have a broad spectrum department detailed in three headings: Creation,Rhetoric, & Pedagogy. Within the specified sections, we will carry on courses such as Creative writing, technical writing, critical theory, and the teaching of composition, among others. Course numbers are really for physical universities, so we should do away with these as well. I think this will stream line it somewhat and get the wikimedia people off our backs. Remember, we're writing this stuff in a medium that allows us to, for the first time, create a school as if it were a work of literature itself. JustinLillich 04:31, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

You probably have no edge in creating a standard a book. At this point, it is unlikely that your newly created book would be better than the current ones available. You need a niche. It appears that you have comparative advantage in the amount of energy you are willing to put in to the program. This energy combined with the ease of communicating online and your current level of academic knowledge should allow you to prosper with the right students. The focus of any education program should be on helping the students learn. If the student isn't learning, the program isn't working. This may seem redundant, but I believe that most institutions would benefit from emphasizing this point. I think that you can have a program in which the instructors can efficiently guide students to the proper resources. The resources could have been created by you/Wikiversity or externally. One way of doing this is to have the interested student contact the instructor. The instructor can refer to student to relevant material based on the initial discussion. The student can then share their writing and questions with other students at an online forum. The instructor can intercede on this forum whenever they can. The instructor can also discuss points with students individually. This process should lead to a rapid rate of learning for certain students. It is my impression that it is this type of student that you are attempting to teach. Another result will be a base of teaching material being created based on actual and not expected needs. From my experience, material based on current needs have a much higher probability of being effective. Charles. 07:23, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

No book... At least from us
I have just finished reading the work that is being done at the Rhetoric & Composition wikibook and think that we may have a primer for students to read and write for as they learn. The book can be found at Rhetoric & Composition. It seems like it is heading in the right direction. Other texts, most of the ones for literature anyway, can be taken from Gutenberg or through books that students would already have.

New Directions
With the Wikiversity project having been improved, I think we'll be looking to change a few things around here. First things first, I propose we change the name to the School of Literary Studies and essentially combine what would be a "Comparative Lit" department into this one. There's no reason we should be so restrictive on language and we should have people focussing on various parts of the world. If at some point there's a Wikiversity in 100s of languages, we can consider creating an English-based department. Until then, let's be for all. --Atrivedi 01:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

i agree completely, as i've said elsewhere. if you want an english track, that's fine, but i think it will be easier and more wiki-ish to have a kind of world lit approach and you can still have courses on shakespeare, milton, joyce, austen, the brontes and whomever because they are significant writers internationally. i'm going to start implementing those changes, unless i hear otherwise. --Smithgrrl 20:52, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

A note from Justin
A long time ago I started this course of study under a different name. During its infancy, it wasn't as well thought out as it is today, but the idea was there for something big. I want to thank those of you that have turned out to start this school up. I haven't read much about what's happening in the Wikiversity lately, but I wanted to let you know that I'm currently formulating a redesign which will bring us into line with other Wiki schools in this network. The content will stay the same, but the methods we use to create that will change a bit. I will work and have been working on a style manual for this school which will allow us to be similar in style with those schools that have been around for much longer. I want to thank you all again for this, and watch the comment pages for updates and new ideas. If it wasn't for those of you who come here, none of this would be worth it.

Go to the staging area:

Thank you, JustinLillich

(Copied from main page by TimNelson 11:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC))

=Merge talk=

i've started off with a more or less standard intro to world literature course. as envisaged the thing relies on the less than perfect but at least it's something NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE which is currrently in something like 5 volumes. The anicent stuff is amazing and truly international except for Africa which gets terribly excluded. I was thinking it would be good to supplement with some other anthologies too. And/or we can substitute HAMLET (their choice for RICHARD THE 3rd (an appropriate Shakespeare for our political moment, imho).

i've divided the class into 4 sections but if that feels too cumbersome it could certainly be divided into 3 or even 2 sections. i kind of like 4 though, since it combats the "semester' and "trimester' structure.

as to the format -- i see that wikiversity leans away from standard lecture which is dandy by me. i'm not sure how to deliver the active learner thing other than by chatroom capability and/or the discussion forum, but perhaps folks more adept with the tech can weigh in on this crucial question.

i hope other folks can do more with this. in the meantime, i'll keep chipping away at it. it's a great course, and whoever reads all the stuff in it, will be one educated dude/dudette! --Smithgrrl 20:46, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

origins
The line "their earliest traceable beginnings in the middle east"--can we clarify here what is meant by textual cultures? What specifically is meant here by the beginning instance? Should this definition of literature include oral cultures? --Gwythoff 22:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

the first writing and the first literary writing -- aka poetry -- that archeologists have found so far comes from the middle least and is connected to worship of certain gods (and goddesses!). i can certainly add that in if you think it's important or perhaps you have some other language you'd like to use. "literature" literally means work that's written down, but i'm ok with including oral work, although that kind of art tends to operate differently, because it's part of a living oral tradition which is constantly being changed (like Son Jara for which we don't have an "original" source because it's been in a constant state of oral tranmission). if "oral literature" is going to be included then there's going to need to be some explanation of how it differs from literary culture. --Smithgrrl 16:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiversity the Movie
Anyone intested in writing a script for Wikiversity the Movie? --Rayc 04:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Course catalog!
The School of Language and Literature is compiling a course/project catalog. Please add any courses that are currently enrolling or are otherwise ready to be used to the Catalog. The Jade Knight 23:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Another volunteer
If you need another participant, I'm around. General interests/areas of expertise include Middle English poetry/lit., poetic interpretation, creative writing, and, for specific poets, Wordsworth and Frost. If something is coming up involving one of these and you'd like some more help, involvement, feedback, etc., just leave me a message and I'd be happy to get involved. The Jade Knight 04:43, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

name changes
The School of Literature and English Studies now redirects to Topic:Literary Studies. Is the image (to the right) still needed? --JWSchmidt 14:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I really don't think so. I'm not sure who made that picture, but it doesn't really fit with where this school section is going. I feel like there should be something a little more "wiki-ish" Something web2.0, but nothing like that. JustinLillich 12:18, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Course Coding
I've been working on the course plans for the classes that I'm going to take. I don't understand the course code layout at all. I was thinking about rewriting the codes to align more with the subheadings within the school and less  with trying to act like a college. I don't think there should be links through the course codes and the names of the classes.

I'm going to conduct my courses asynchronously through a message board service. I will begin linking to the board rooms shortly, but they will take a lot of work to get up and running. On top of that, I have to devise a curriculum through which the students will learn the most on their own with little directive from me aside from the commenting on essays and the direct email questions. I think at this point we should all try to teach the same way. I know that's a lot to ask since not everyone can be here 100% of the time. I'm trying to use this as a means to get teaching jobs in the real world, and I think it would be a valuable method for those of you out there interested in this to do the same. 64.211.83.42 02:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

=hello= Hi, the following comment was moved from here to here. Erkan Yilmaz ( my talk page, wiki blog ) 08:14, 13 October 2007 (UTC) hi,

i thought i'd say hello to everyone. i'm new here.

veronica

school?
ought this be a school? If not, what school would this topic be under? --Remi 07:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Psychology

is a top-level Library of Congress Classification and Social Sciences Wikiversity category.

(subpages)

title: Category:Psychology


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Talk:Grants and fundraising/Wikiversity nonprofit corporation

Regarding distributed wiki technology. A nonprofit dedicated to developing professional wiki educators is an interesting concept. I have envisioned a nonprofit to promote distributed grid like techologies in support of large free wiki type projects and specifically Wikiversity. The idea would be to slow or limit the growth in requirements of the centralized server farm. As serious students and organizations join the Wikiversity effort they would bring donated computer assets with them to handle the increasing processing, bandwidth and hard drive space. There would be a centralized organizational seed but much/most demand growth would be filled by arriving computer assets owned by the wiki participants. Is there room enough in the charter proposed to include this type of technical research and development or is it better to have a specialized charter focused on education and deal with infrastructure technology via another dedicated nonprofit centered around the computer scientists and software hackers? Which would make it easier to support writing grants and achieving funding I wonder? Mirwin 10:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * So how much money do you need to invest to file the paperwork for a NPC?--Rayc 01:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This website provides a cost estimate. --JWSchmidt 02:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I guess we are a ways away from that then.--Rayc 02:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Internet Media
I think an Internet Media Group NPC is do-able on a shoestring budget. I am persistantly working toward building my own Topic:Audio Engineering workstation and music studio via a low-budget open source & free software audio platform a la Internet Audio. I'm hoping to learn how to implement this through Wikiversity and will cheerfully licence my musical content through the Creative Commons and submit it to Wikiversity-aware repositories. Please note my Open Letter idea at Internet Audio. CQ 03:42, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Notes on Non-profit
It will cost you about $500 to start up a non-profit and the forms are rather simple to fill out. The question that you need to ask is whether or not you want to be a non-profit or a for-profit. These are merely tax categories.

Roadrunner 18:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Public Media NPCs
These projects are in development at the Media Policy Center, a California non-profit 501c3 organization established in 2003. Its mission is to "explore issues of social welfare, public policy, education, the environment, and healthcare". The essential components of all productions will be television broadcasts, Web sites, national community outreach, coordinated marketing and after-market curricula publications.

I thought this might provide some ideas. See Edens Lost and Found for an example of their work. CQ 04:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


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Portal:Civil engineering

Welcome to the Civil Engineering School! Part of Engineering and Technology Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that mostly relates to the designing, planning, maintaining and construction of subjects such as buildings, large scale workings, drainage and roads. Civil engineering has a large impact on modern society, as it dictates how lots of processes and services work together.

Topics covered within the field of Civil engineering include road design, drainage and sewer design, site layouts, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, construction engineering, and surveying.

Divisions and departments

Divisions and departments of schools exist on pages in the "Topic:" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "Topic:" prefix; departments reside in the "Topic:" namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning materials and learning and research projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the naming conventions. 🇨🇴
 * Construction Technology And Management
 * Structural Engineering
 * Geotechnical Engineering
 * Transportation Engineering
 * Water Resources Engineering
 * Environmental Engineering
 * Construction Engineering
 * Topic:Material science/Concrete technology

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).
 * Anbarasu VIT University (VIT-U)
 * Richardcox4
 * Deepak Ravikumar(SRM)
 * Debabrata Paul(SRM)
 * Nicholas Johnson
 * Pon Rathnavel
 * user:mahendra/mahendra
 * k.jayavijayan VIT University
 * Dhruv Singhal(Amity)

Lessons
Get to work writing lessons! Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!

 * Basics of Civil Engineering
 * Nonkilling Technology

Research projects
This feature of Wikiversity will be implemented later pending further discussion.

 * Hydrostatic stability (bouyancy) applied to tall structures as protection from liquifaction
 * Fourier Transforms
 * Competition for solution to the reconstruction of the New Orleans basin: conversion to a rigid plane and pole structure extending to the Gulf from the higher plateau preceding the basin.
 * Pervious concrete

Wikipedia

 * Statics
 * Civil Engineering

Open source software for civil engineering

 * Ferma - Educational CAD tool used for 2d truss analysis
 * Structural Theory Suite - Load analysis
 * Civil Engineering Estimation System
 * Code Aster Code Aster is an Open Source program for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and structural simulation

fr:Département:Génie civil ja:Topic:土木工学

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Introduction to Calculus

Welcome to Introduction to Calculus This is the course Introduction to Calculus Overview Page which comes under the Calculus Topic Page. Before taking this the Introduction to Calculus Course it is recommended that you have a working knowledge of trigonometry as defined by the quiz below. Try to complete the questions and check with the Discussion Page answers submitted by various users. If you still have difficulty then check out the Trigonometry Page. -

Outline

 * 1) /Introduction/
 * 2) /Limits/
 * 3) /Differentiation/
 * 4) /Integration/
 * 5) Any questions?

Quizzes, tests, and exams

 * A review on all of this course's prerequisites.
 * A review on all of this course's prerequisites.

Other Wikiprojects

 * Calculus from Wikipedia
 * Calculus textbook
 * Calculus II
 * Calculus problems

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Wikiversity:Motto contest

After nearly a year of discussion, the motto and slogan contests have concluded.

The motto portion of the contest ended August 5, 2007. The motto selected is "open learning community".

The slogan portion of the contest ended May 2, 2007. The slogan selected is "set learning free".

Discussion strings about concluding this contest are in the Colloquium archives: Motto and slogan contests: discussion of outcomes (May 2007) and Motto_contest: wrap up? (July 2007). A new colloquium post will be added (soon) to invite suggestions for possible ongoing processes for revising or refining the motto and slogan. Also, feel free to add comments on the motto contest talk page.

Thank you for your interest and participation!

Goals
These were the stated goals of the contest.

We need to create and select:
 * 1) a Wikiversity motto
 * 2) a short description (for use with the Wikiversity logo on sister Wikimedia projects)
 * 3) a slogan

There are two contests, using the same options, to choose phrases to fulfill these three roles

The motto contest fulfills two purposes, choosing:
 * A Wikiversity motto, which is a general phrase that conveys the mission of Wikiversity (or part of the mission), which may be inspiring or appeal to a general principle. This purpose emerged in the course of various of the options proposed and selected in rounds 1-3 of this contest.

 * A "short description," which is a short phrase that describes a Wikimedia project briefly. This was the original purpose of the motto contest. The "short description" will be listed with our logo (see our logo contest) and project name on Wikimedia sister projects. Here are some Wikimedia logo-name-motto examples:

Here are logo-name-motto examples the Wikiversity logo finalist and some of the motto finalists:

The slogan contest is for choosing a descriptive phrase to be listed at the top of our main page just under "Welcome to Wikiversity."

We have completed the final round, Round 6, of the selection process. The rounds of the selection process are summarized at the end of this page.

Winning Motto: "Open learning community"
The winning motto is "open learning community" .

Summary of final round: From the goals of the contest, the Wikiversity motto is both a phrase that conveys the general mission of Wikiversity (or part of the mission) and a "short description" that briefly describes Wikimedia project. The motto will be listed with our logo.

The winning motto, "open learning community," had 61% of the positive support statements in round 6. There were 27 support statements for "open learning community," and many included substantive points in favor of the option. "Open education" had 3 in support and "free learning community" had 14 in support. The objections are few in comparison to supportive statements (except for the least popular "open education" option). The winning "open" motto had 3 comments against, the "education" motto had four against, and the "free" motto had two against. The objections do not seem to invalidate the value or meaning of the free/open learning community motto options.

As for the choice of an article to possibly precede "open learning community, an important criticism of using the "the" was made on the talk page (Open University already exists). Twelve supporters of this motto did not favor using an article or did not mention the issue. The definite article had twelve supporters as well. The indefinite article had three supporters. This is a difficult call. Because of the substantive criticism made on the talk page, the winning motto is presented without a suggested article. A merit of using no article is that the motto is shorter and will fit better under the logo. This can be an issue for later discussion.

See the "summary of contest process issues and possible further steps" section below for other possible discussion points.

Archive: Motto_contest/Round_6

Winning Slogan: "Set learning free"
The winning slogan is "set learning free" .

Summary of final round: The Wikiversity slogan is a phrase for listing at top of main page with "Welcome to Wikiversity". "Set learning free" had 68% of the positive support statements in round 6. There were 30 support statements for "set learning free". "Knowledge is free" had 4 in support and "Because knowledge should be free" had 10 in support. The latter 2 options had 3 comment each against use. "Set learning free" had no statements against. As for the wording of "set learning free" vs "learning set free," a few more people preferred "set learning free".

Thank you for your participation!

Archive: Motto_contest/Round_6

Summary of contest process issues and possible further steps
This description, based on previous discussions, here and in the colloquium, is still being compiled (as of 8/7/07).

Summary of objectives of rounds

 * Round 1: the process was:
 * list as many mottos and slogans as you wish.
 * select one motto and slogan each, by listing your name by your selection
 * at any time, feel free to change your selection and add mottos or slogans.

 * Round 2: Invite more support (and support changing) for options with at least one person supporting.
 * Round 3: Invite more support (and support changing) on options with at least two persons supporting.
 * Round 4: Reduce options (such as through listing only strongly supported options in each group as one step and droping groups with little support) to those supported by four or more people.
 * Round 5: Select amongst finalists.
 * Round 6: Refine options in final groups.

Winners are the motto and the slogan with a strong majority in favor.

Timeframes

 * the first selection round started on August 23 and ended on September 7, 2006, after 5:00 pm GMT.
 * the second round (which includes the openness of the first round) started on Septermber 7 and ended on September 22, 2006, 5:00 pm GMT.
 * the third round began September 23 and ended October 15, 2006.
 * the fourth round commenced October 15, 2006 and lasted until November 18, 2006.
 * the fifth round ended January 16, 2007.
 * the sixth round started on January 27, 2007 and will continue until final refined options are selected. The slogan contest ended on May 2, 2007 and the motto contest ended August 5, 2007.

Previous Rounds
A list of all suggested mottos and slogans for Round 1 are at Motto contest/Round 1.

A list of suggested mottos and slogans for Round 2, receiving support from at least one person, are at Motto contest/Round 2.

A list of suggested mottos and slogans for Round 3, receiving support from at least two persons (including similar options with one or more person supporting), are at Motto contest/Round 3.

A list of mottos and slogans for Round 4, receiving support from at least four persons in round 3 (including similar options with one or more person supporting), are at Motto contest/Round 4.

A list of finalist mottos and slogans for Round 5, receiving the most support in round 4, are at Motto contest/Round 5.

A listing of finalist mottos and slogans for Round 6, receiving the most support in round 5, are at Motto contest/Round 6.

Related Projects

 * Logo contest for Wikiversity on meta.
 * Wikiversity mission - We can use ideas from the motto, slogan and logo contests to help refine the mission statement. Feel free to post mission statement revisions.

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Business

A business is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods or services.

Learning projects

 * /Companies/
 * /Markets/
 * /Work smarter/
 * /Earning money/
 * /Employee-owned companies/
 * /Operating a business/

Discussion questions

 * How can business be utilized to benefit one's own self and others?
 * How can business be used to benefit society?
 * What are the best ways to raise funds to start a business?
 * What sort of business or businesses are you interested in starting?
 * What are the steps to start a new business ?
 * What are remedies to solve the problems of women entrepreneur ?

Wikipedia

 * Decentralized autonomous organization
 * Benefit corporation
 * Public-benefit corporation
 * Business
 * Business plan

Wikibooks

 * Business Wikibooks

External readings

 * Raising Private Money: Gifts, Loans, and Equity Investments

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User:Ray Shan

Introduction
This is a page about Wikipedian Ray Shan. For detailed information, please visit his Profile page on www.RayShan.com.

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Algebraic structures

Higher algebra studies the algebraic structures that arise in higher mathematics and unifies various themes that run throughout mathematical experience. Physicists may be most familiar with groups, but group theory pervades many parts of mathematics and arose to solve a primarily mathematical problem. Category theory is a relatively new topic that arose from the study of cohomology in topology but quickly broke free of its shackles to that area and became a powerful tool that currently challenges set theory as a foundation of mathematics, although category theory requires more mathematical experience to appreciate and cannot in its current state be reasonably used to introduce mathematics. It has also found many applications in the physical sciences.

Readings

 * Group theory
 * Ring theory
 * Field theory
 * Category theory
 * Representation theory
 * Non-associative algebra
 * Multilinear algebra

Resources

 * Group theory
 * Category theory
 * Representation theory

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Talk:Test and Quiz

Removing quiz extension from this page
Someone confused the issue by adding an example of the quiz extension onto this page, when it's supposed to be a different kind of widget. Can we remove the example and concentrate on the boxes? McCormack 17:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Hide answers
Can we tweak this so by default the answer does not show up first? --HappyCamper 13:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Real test
Could you show a real test for its example, that I would be able understand how it works?--Juan 14:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Didn't the two examples in Test_and_Quiz help? --Erkan Yilmaz 18:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Well. Ill test it and ill see if some q will rise. Thanks.--Juan 14:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposal for an extension: wikiquiz
I developed an extension for mediawiki: wikiquiz and I think that this one could be useful to wikiversity. At this moment, the English version of the page presenting the extension is full of mistakes, but I am rewriting it. If you are interested, juste reply to this message. Thank you. Lrbabe 14:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * We are in the process of evaluating the code and trying to get it included. I have a local test wiki, and will be setting up a more accessible test wiki shortly. Historybuff 22:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Historybuff, I've been really busy in the last few days and haven't had a chance to keep up with the news about this extention. You can see the extention working at .  If the code does the same thing on your sever, I would say it would be very helpful.--Rayc 19:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * One thing I noticed was that I was able to score below 0 points. How is this possible?--Rayc 19:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * "It's not a bug, it's a feature !" ;). This is because you can define a negative score for wrong answers (and no answer gives you 0), and I wanted that the user knows which score he really obtained, without remaining within the school framework: the notes start to 0. This may change in the future, beacause 'am gonna change the correction layout again. I think the actual one is still too complex to understand (too many colors, the correction is displayed on several lines with small screen resolution...) and could be improved.
 * It's ok. We aren't suppose to conform to school grading standards anyways. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how you set the answers without letting students click edit and see the answers. My first attempt was to hide the answer using a I and l.  There is another version made by a user in the spanish wikipedia that I've been testing (User:Rayc/monobook.js).  See if any of this is helpful.--Rayc 22:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The answer must be AFTER || to be hidden and then displayed by the correction. Beware, if you use sandbox on my own wiki, you'll have trouble since the syntaxe has changed with 1.0 (wich will be released soon, when documentation will be ready).
 * I mean I was creating two different pages, El Salón de Clase quizI and El Salón de Clase quizl and hoping no one would notice that they were two different pages. --Rayc 21:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Results prewiev
If I fill up the test e.g. handout test, can I see somewhere the results? I mean for example a summary of my ansers.--Juan 19:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Dynamics
We've started a learning project Generating dynamic content with MediaWiki and Test and Quiz is just the sort of thing we would like to include as the next phase. We're just now approaching the topic of content that can change on an hourly basis and beginning to dive into the realm of MediaWiki variables and parser functions that can deal with fast changes such as timed tests and minute-by-minute accounts of things. This is just the sort of project that could apply such magic. We would also like to look into some more uses of javascript in templates and would like to include that in the dynamic content learning project and other MediaWiki Project endeavors. Can we come up with a "Take a random test" challenge each hour on the Main Page, just for fun? Please have a look and comment on how we're doing so far. -- CQ 21:08, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Flashcard Randomization
There is an error in the original calculation posted for flashcard randomization. The original calculation was. The problem with this approach is that it returns a number greater than the item count for the last few seconds of each minute.

While it is possible to correct for this using instead, this is still not an optimal solution for two reasons. First, the randomization is ultimately based on parts of a minute rather than on seconds. With three cards, for the first 20 seconds you get one card, then the next 20 seconds are the second card, and the final 20 seconds are the third card. Second, this approach is limited to no more than 60 items in the switch.

I'm replacing the calculation with. This is based on integer calculations, which perform faster, has no practical limit to the number of items in the switch, and will vary the card returned each second. Additional information on how the calculation works and another example of flashcards is being added to the resource text.

-- Dave Braunschweig (talk) 14:04, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

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User talk:Ray Shan

Finance Page Add
I've added the time value of money to the finance page. I hope this is ok. It seemed a lot like corporate finance, so I added it after business finance. MikeHanson

Rename
I've renamed you (from User:Rayshan to User:Ray Shan). Is that ok? Cormaggio 14:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Sure... although I don't think you've actually accomplished it. Thanks anyway! Rayshan 22:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm curious...Could you try logging into Wikiversity with "Ray Shan" and see what happens when you get a chance? --HappyCamper 23:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it's weird - I renamed "Rayshan" to "Ray Shan" but then, I think, you created that account again. From the the logs:

 * 14:25, 23 August 2006 Rayshan (Talk | contribs | block) New user (Talk | contribs | block)
 * 14:01, 23 August 2006 Cormaggio (Talk | contribs | block) (Renamed the user "Rayshan" (which had 14 edits) to "Ray Shan")
 * 13:18, 23 August 2006 Ray Shan (Talk | contribs | block) New user (Talk | contribs | block)

 * There's no real problem - use whichever account you want - and you can always customise how your signature looks by changing it in your preferences (beside your watchlist at the top of the page). If I can help with anything else, just let me know. Cormaggio 07:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Yea guys, I tried logging in with Ray Shan and didn't work. I was wondering why I had to register twice. Now I know! Thanks anyway! 66.177.92.226 17:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Wait - don't make a new account yet - get a bureaucrat to change the name of your account. --HappyCamper 13:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * He's at User:Cormaggio. --HappyCamper 13:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The reason to do this, is that you get to keep all the contributions you've made to this account in your new account as well. I suppose it's not too important at this point, but it is something nice to do. --HappyCamper 13:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm, it should be all good, I created a new account after only making a few edits. Thanks for the concern tho, I'll keep the tip in mind for the future. Rayshan 15:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Main page redesign
Hello! You commented on the proposed main page design, so I'm inviting you to view a modified version that I created. If you have the time, please post your opinion at Wikiversity talk:Main Page. Thank you! —David Levy 08:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Of course. 66.177.92.226 17:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

High school e-business teacher looking to contribute ...
I'm a 6th form teacher in the UK and I am currently developing a course on e-business for 16-19 year olds prior to entering university.

I would like to place the material I create for the course in the public domain - not least because it makes life easier for my students.

Is this a good use of wikiversity?

 * Answered here: --HappyCamper 05:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I've also answered you on your talk page. Rayshan 06:59, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problems

 * This is the image in question. Please provide a source and license template for it. Thanks. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 22:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

title: User talk:Ray Shan