| Week Starts | Topic | Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines | Due Date | Possible Points |
| 13 January | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Blackboard Post | 8 am 16 January |
25+ |
| Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Seventeenth-Century paragraph | 8 am 20 January |
50 | |
| 20 January | Unit 3: East Asia | Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (21 January) |
8 am 23 January |
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| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Digital Project assignment | 3 March | 150 | |
| 27 January | Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | 8 am 30 January |
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| Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | 8 am 3 February |
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| 3 February |
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | Imperialism paper | 8 am 6 February |
100 |
| Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam | 10 February | 150 | |
| 10 February |
Unit 9: World War I | Last Withdrawal Date (15 February) | 8 am 13 February |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Genocide group project | 8 am 17 February |
100 | |
| 17 February |
Unit 11: South Asian Independence | 8 am 20 February |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 24 February |
100 | |
| 24 February |
Unit 13: Cold War | 8 am 27 February |
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| Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization | Wikipedia Analysis paper | 8 am 3 March |
100 | |
| 3 March |
Unit 15: Twenty-First Century World | Reflective paragraph and Blackboard posting | 8 am 6 March |
25 |
| Unit 16: Final Exam | Final
exam Course End Date (9 March) |
9 March | 200 | |
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule.
There are extra credit options available in each unit of the course: (1) You may submit one item of extra credit in each unit of the course; (2) you may not submit extra credit work from a unit once that unit has been completed; (3) you may not submit extra credit work if you are not up-to-date on the course required assignments.
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F