| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 1 July |
Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (7 July) | 8 am 8 July |
50 |
| 7 July |
Unit 2: Pre-History | Required Pre-History paragraph |
8 am 11 July |
50 |
| Unit 3: Ancient Near East | Required Gilgamesh paper | 8 am 15 July |
100 | |
| 14 July |
Unit 4: Classical Greece | Required Pericles paragraph | 8 am 17 July |
50 |
| Unit 5: Classical Rome and Christianity | Optional Sermon paragraph | 8 am 19 July |
(25) | |
| Unit 6: Islam and Empire | Required Hadith paragraph | 8 am 22 July |
50 | |
| 21 July |
Unit 7: Russia | Midterm Exam Due Date | 24 July | 150 |
| Unit 8: Charlemagne | *Optional Song of Roland Paper; Last Withdrawal Date (26 July) | 8 am 26 July |
(100) | |
| Unit 9: Feudalism | Required Feudalism paragraph | 8 am 29 July |
50 | |
| 28 July |
Unit 10: Early Middle Ages | Optional Magna Carta paragraph | 8 am 31 July |
(25) |
| Unit 11: Medieval Russia | Required Web paper | 8 am 2 August |
100 | |
| Unit 12: Late Middle Ages | *Optional Chaucer paper | 8 am 5 August |
(100) | |
| 4 August |
Unit 13: Renaissance | *Optional Machiavelli paper | 8 am 7 August |
(100) |
| Unit 14: Reformation | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 9 August |
(50-100) | |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam; Course End Date (11 August) | 10 August | 250 | |
| Any Week | Online Discussion (Post during the course.) | 50 | ||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
There are specific assignment deadlines in this course, and these are listed on the course schedule. 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. You may not submit late extra credit work. You may not take a required exam late.
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F
Please remember that you must pass the final exam with a grade of "C" (175/250) or better to earn a passing grade of "C" or better in this course.