| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 24 August | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post | 8 am 27 August |
55+ |
| Unit 2: Pre-History | Required Pre-History paragraph Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (1 September) |
8 am 31 August |
50 | |
| 31 August | ||||
| Unit 3: Ancient Near East | Required Gilgamesh paper |
8 am 3 September |
100 | |
| Unit 4: Classical Greece | Required Ancient paragraph | 8 am 7 September |
50 | |
| 7 September | Unit 5: Classical Rome and Christianity | Canvas post/respond Optional Sermon paragraph |
8 am 10 September |
5 |
| Unit 6: Islam and Empire | Required Hadith paragraph | 8 am 14 September |
50 | |
| 14 September |
Unit 7: Russia | Midterm Exam | 17 September | 150 |
| Unit 8: Charlemagne | *Optional Song of Roland Paper | 8 am 21 September |
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| 21 September |
Unit 9: Feudalism | Required Feudalism paragraph Last Withdrawal Date (26 September) |
8 am 24 September |
50 |
| Unit 10: Early Middle Ages | Canvas post/respond Optional Magna Carta paragraph |
8 am 28 September |
5 | |
| 28 September | Unit 11: Medieval Russia | Required Web paper | 8 am 1 October |
100 |
| Unit 12: Late Middle Ages | Canvas post/respond *Optional Chaucer paper |
8 am 5 October |
5 | |
| 5 October | Unit 13: Renaissance | *Optional Machiavelli paper | 8 am 8 October |
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| Unit 14: Reformation | Canvas post/respond Extra Credit Special project paper |
8 am 12 October |
5 | |
| 12 October |
Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam | 15 October | 250 |
| Unit 16: The World in 1500 | Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting Course End Date (18 October) |
8 am 18 October |
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