| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 18 March | Unit 1: Introduction | Required Introduction paragraph | 8 am 25 March |
50 |
| 24 March | Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (26 March) |
8 am 28 March |
50 |
| Unit 3: Persia | Required Chardin paper | 8 am 1 April |
100 | |
| 31 March | Unit 4: East Asia | Optional Japan paragraph | 8 am 4 April |
(25) |
| Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Required Declaration paragraph | 8 am 8 April |
50 | |
| 7 April |
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | Optional Industry paragraph | 8 am 11 April |
(25) |
| Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | *Optional Imperialism paper | 8 am 15 April |
(100) | |
| 14 April |
Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam Due Date | 18 April | 150 |
| Unit 9: World War I | *Optional Remarque paper; Last Withdrawal Date (21 April) | 8 am 22 April |
(100) | |
| 21 April |
Unit 10: World War II | Required Genocide paragraph | 8 am 25 April |
50 |
| Unit 11: Modernization | Required Web paper | 8 am 29 April |
100 | |
| 28 April |
Unit 12: Cold War | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 2 May |
(50-100) |
| Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Required UN paragraph | 8 am 6 May |
50 | |
| 5 May |
Unit 14: South Asian Independence | *Optional Gandhi paper | 8 am 9 May |
(100) |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam; Course End Date (13 May) | 13 May | 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
You must pass the final exam with a grade of "C" (175/250) or better to earn a passing grade of "C" or better in this course.