| Week Starts |
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment |
Possible Points |
| 16 May |
Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction paragraph | 8 am 23 May |
50 |
| 22 May |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
8 am 31 May |
50 |
| 29 May |
Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | Required American paragraph | 8 am 6 June |
50 |
| Last Refund Date/ Blackboard Sign-In Deadline (1 June) |
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| 5 June |
Unit 4: French Revolution |
Optional French paragraph |
8 am 13 June |
(25) |
| 12 June |
Unit 5: Industrial Revolution | Required Dickens paper |
8 am 20 June |
100 |
| 19 June |
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? |
Optional Decembrists paragraph | 8 am 27 June |
(25) |
| 26 June |
Unit 7: Socialism |
Midterm exam |
9 July | 150 |
| 3 July |
Unit 8: Nationalism |
Required Bismarck Paragraph |
8 am 11 July |
50 |
| Midterm Exam Due Date (9 July) | ||||
| 10 July |
Unit 9: Imperialism |
*Optional Achebe paper |
8 am 18 July |
(100) |
| 17 July |
Unit 10: The Great War |
*Optional Remarque paper | 8 am 25 July |
(100) |
| Last Withdrawal Date (22July) | ||||
| 24 July |
Unit 11: Russian Revolution |
Required Web paper |
8 am 1 August |
100 |
| 31 July |
Unit 12: Fascism |
Required Hitler paragraph |
8 am 8 August |
50 |
| 7 August |
Unit 13: World War II |
Extra Credit Special Project paper |
8 am 15 August |
(50-100) |
| 14 August |
Unit 14: Cold War |
*Optional Solzhenitsyn paper |
8 am 22 August |
(100) |
| 21 August |
Unit 15: Final Exam | Final
exam; Course End Date (5 September) |
5 September | 250 |
| Any Week |
Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) | 50 | ||
| 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