| Week Starts |
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment |
Possible Points |
| 24 August |
Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Blackboard Post | 8 am 31 August |
55+ |
| 31 August |
Unit 2: Pre-History | Required Pre-History paragraph |
8 am 7 September |
50 |
| 7 September |
Unit 3: Ancient Near East | Required Gilgamesh paper Last Refund Date/ First Assignment Due Date Deadline (10 September) |
8 am 14 September |
100 |
| 14 September |
Unit 4: Classical Greece |
Required Ancient paragraph |
8 am 21 September |
50 |
| 21 September |
Unit 5: Classical Rome and Christianity | Blackboard post/respond Optional Sermon paragraph |
8 am 28 September |
5 |
| 28 September |
Unit 6: Islam and Empire |
Required Hadith paragraph | 8 am 5 October |
50 |
| 5 October | Unit 7: Russia |
Midterm Exam |
12 October | 150 |
| 12 October |
NON-INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS (Fall Break) | |||
| 19 October |
Unit 8: Charlemagne |
*Optional Song of Roland Paper |
8 am 26 October |
|
| 26 October |
Unit 9: Feudalism |
Required Feudalism paragraph |
8 am 2 November |
50 |
| 2 November | Unit 10: Early Middle Ages |
Blackboard post/respond Optional Magna Carta paragraph Last Withdrawal Date (3 November) |
8 am 9 November |
5 |
| 9 November |
Unit 11: Medieval Russia |
Required Web paper |
8 am 16 November |
100 |
| 16 November |
Unit 12: Late Middle Ages |
Blackboard post/respond *Optional Chaucer paper |
8 am 23 November |
5 |
| 23 November |
Unit 13: Renaissance |
*Optional Machiavelli paper |
8 am 30 November |
|
| 30 November |
Unit 14: Reformation |
Blackboard post/respond Extra Credit Special Project paper |
8 am 7 December |
5 |
| 7 December | Unit 15: Final Exam | Final
exam |
14 December | 250 |
| 14 December | Unit 16: The World in 1500 | Reflective paragraph and Blackboard posting Course End Date (20 December) |
8 am 20 December |
25 |
| * You must do one of these book paper assignments for 100 points. | 100 | |||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 | |||
The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule. You may not submit late extra credit work from a course unit. You may submit any of the course assignments, or optional course assignments late, but the maximum point value will then be reduced by one-half.
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F