| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 4 February | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction paragraph | 8 am 11 February |
50 |
| 10 February | Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (13 February) |
8 am 14 February |
50 |
| Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | Required American paragraph | 8 am 18 February |
50 | |
| 17 February | Unit 4: French Revolution | Optional French paragraph | 8 am 21 February |
(25) |
| Unit 5: Industrial Revolution | Required Dickens paper | 8 am 25 February |
100 | |
| 24 February | Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? | Optional Decembrists paragraph | 8 am 28 February |
(25) |
| Unit 7: Socialism | Midterm Exam Due Date | 4 March | 150 | |
| 3 March |
Unit 8: Nationalism | Required Bismarck Paragraph | 8 am 7 March |
50 |
| Unit 9: Imperialism | *Optional Imperialism paper | 8 am 11 March |
(100) | |
| 10 March |
SPRING BREAK; Last Withdrawal Date (14 March) | |||
| 17 March | Unit 10: The Great War | *Optional Remarque paper | 8 am 21 March |
(100) |
| Unit 11: Russian Revolution | Required Web paper | 8 am 25 March |
100 | |
| 24 March | Unit 12: Fascism | Required Hitler paragraph | 8 am 28 March |
50 |
| Unit 13: World War II | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 1 April |
(50-100) | |
| 31 March | Unit 14: Cold War | *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper | 8 am 4 April |
(100) |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam; Course End Date (8 April) | 8 April | 250 | |
| Any Week | Online Discussion (Post 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
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.