HIS 102 8 Week Course Assignment Schedule

HIS 102 (Fall 2015)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
28 September Start Date

Grades are recorded in the gradebook in Canvas. For an explanation of the critical course deadlines, highlighted on the schedule in bold, please see the course syllabus.

Week Starts	Topic	Assignments/Critical course Deadlines	Assignment Due Date	Possible Points
28 September	Unit 1: Introduction	Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post	8 am 1 October	55+
28 September	Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe	Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph	8 am 5 October	50
5 October	Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment	Required American paragraph Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (6 October)	8 am 8 October	50
5 October	Unit 4: French Revolution	Canvas post/respond Optional French paragraph	8 am 12 October	5
12 October	Unit 5: Industrial Revolution	Required Dickens paper	8 am 15 October	100
12 October	Unit 6: Russia in Revolt?	Canvas post/respond Optional Decembrists paragraph	8 am 19 October	5
19 October	Unit 7: Socialism	Midterm Exam	22 October	150
19 October	Unit 8: Nationalism	Required Bismarck Paragraph	8 am 26 October	50
26 October	Unit 9: Imperialism	Canvas post/respond *Optional Imperialism paper	8 am 29 October	5
26 October	Unit 10: The Great War	Optional Remarque paper Last Withdrawal Date (31 October)*	8 am 2 November
2 November	Unit 11: Russian Revolution	Required Web paper	8 am 5 November	100
2 November	Unit 12: Fascism	Required Hitler paragraph	8 am 9 November	50
9 November	Unit 13: World War II	Canvas post/respond Extra Credit Special project paper	8 am 12 November	5
9 November	Unit 14: Cold War	*Optional Solzhenitsyn paper	8 am 16 November
16 November	Unit 15: Final Exam	Final exam	19 November	250
16 November	Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World	Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting Course End Date (22 November)	8 am 22 November	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