| 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: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
8 am 10 July |
50 |
| Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | Required American paragraph | 8 am 12 July |
50 | |
| Unit 4: French Revolution | Optional French paragraph | 8 am 15 July |
(25) |
|
| 14 July |
Unit 5: Industrial Revolution | Required Dickens paper | 8 am 17 July |
100 |
| Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? | Optional Decembrists paragraph | 8 am 19 July |
(25) | |
| Unit 7: Socialism | Midterm Exam Due Date | 22 July | 150 | |
| 21 July |
Unit 8: Nationalism | Required Bismarck Paragraph | 8 am 25 July |
50 |
| Unit 9: Imperialism | *Optional Achebe paper; Last Withdrawal Date (26 July) | 8 am 29 July |
(100) | |
| 28 July |
Unit 10: The Great War | *Optional Remarque paper | 8 am 31 July |
(100) |
| Unit 11: Russian Revolution | Required Web paper | 8 am 2 August |
100 | |
| Unit 12: Fascism | Required Hitler paragraph | 8 am 5 August |
50 | |
| 4 August |
Unit 13: World War II | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 7 August |
(50-100) |
| Unit 14: Cold War | *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper | 8 am 9 August |
(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.