Week Starts
|
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines |
Assignment
Due Date |
Possible Points |
16
May |
Unit 1: Introduction |
Introduction
paragraph |
8 am
23 May |
50 |
22
May |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe
|
Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 May)
|
8 am
31 May |
50 |
29
May |
Unit 3: Persia |
Required Chardin paper |
8 am
6 June |
100 |
5
June |
Unit 4: East Asia
|
Optional Japan paragraph
|
8 am
9 June |
(25) |
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment |
Required Declaration paragraph |
8 am
13 June |
50 |
12
June |
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization |
Optional Industry paragraph
|
8 am
16 June |
(25) |
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World |
*Optional Achebe paper |
8 am
20 June |
(100) |
19
June |
Unit 8: Russia
|
Midterm Exam Due Date |
27 June |
150 |
26
June |
Unit 9: World War I
|
*Optional Remarque paper
|
8 am
5 July |
(100) |
3
July |
Unit 10: World War II
|
Required Genocide paragraph; Last Withdrawal Date (6 July)
|
8 am
11 July |
50 |
10
July |
Unit 11: Modernization
|
Required Web paper
|
8 am
18 July |
100 |
17
July |
Unit 12: Cold War
|
Extra Credit Special project paper
|
8 am
21 July |
(50-100) |
Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building |
Required UN paragraph |
8 am
25 July |
50 |
24
July |
Unit 14: South Asian Independence
|
*Optional Gandhi paper
|
8 am
1 August |
(100) |
31
July |
Unit 15: Final Exam
|
Final
exam; Course End Date (8 August)
|
8 August |
250 |
Any
Week |
|
Online
Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) |
|
50 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |