HIS 102 8 Week Course Assignment Schedule

HIS 102 (Fall 2015)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
19 October 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
19 October	Unit 1: Introduction	Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post	8 am 22 October	55+
19 October	Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe	Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph	8 am 26 October	50
26 October	Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment	Required American paragraph Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (27 October)	8 am 29 October	50
26 October	Unit 4: French Revolution	Canvas post/respond Optional French paragraph	8 am 2 November	5
2 November	Unit 5: Industrial Revolution	Required Dickens paper	8 am 5 November	100
2 November	Unit 6: Russia in Revolt?	Canvas post/respond Optional Decembrists paragraph	8 am 9 November	5
9 November	Unit 7: Socialism	Midterm Exam	12 November	150
9 November	Unit 8: Nationalism	Required Bismarck Paragraph	8 am 16 November	50
16 November	Unit 9: Imperialism	Canvas post/respond *Optional Imperialism paper	8 am 19 November	5
16 November	Unit 10: The Great War	Optional Remarque paper Last Withdrawal Date (21 November)*	8 am 23 November
23 November	Unit 11: Russian Revolution	Required Web paper	8 am 26 November	100
23 November	Unit 12: Fascism	Required Hitler paragraph	8 am 30 November	50
30 November	Unit 13: World War II	Canvas post/respond Extra Credit Special project paper	8 am 3 December	5
30 November	Unit 14: Cold War	*Optional Solzhenitsyn paper	8 am 7 December
7 December	Unit 15: Final Exam	Final exam	10 December	250
7 December	Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World	Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting Course End Date (13 December)	8 am 13 December	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