| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 20 August |
Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction paragraph | 8 am 25 August |
50 |
| 24 August | Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
8 am 28 August |
50 |
| Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | Required American paragraph Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 August) |
8 am 1 September |
50 | |
| 31 August | Unit 4: French Revolution | Optional French paragraph | 8 am 4 September |
(25) |
| Unit 5: Industrial Revolution | Required Dickens paper | 8 am 8 September |
100 | |
| 7 September |
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? | Optional Decembrists paragraph | 8 am 11 September |
(25) |
| Unit 7: Socialism | Midterm Exam | 15 September | 150 | |
| 14 September |
Unit 8: Nationalism | Required Bismarck Paragraph | 8 am 18 September |
50 |
| Unit 9: Imperialism | *Optional Imperialism paper | 8 am 22 September |
(100) | |
| 21 September | Unit 10: The Great War | *Optional Remarque paper Last Withdrawal Date (22 September) |
8 am 25 September |
(100) |
| Unit 11: Russian Revolution | Required Web paper | 8 am 29 September |
100 | |
| 28 September | Unit 12: Fascism | Required Hitler paragraph | 8 am 2 October |
50 |
| Unit 13: World War II | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 6 October |
(50-100) | |
| 5 October |
Unit 14: Cold War | *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper | 8 am 9 October |
(100) |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final
exam Course End Date (14 October) |
13 October | 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