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