| Week Starts | Topic | Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines | Due Date | Possible Points |
| 17 March | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Blackboard Post | 8 am 20 March |
25+ |
| Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Seventeenth-Century paragraph | 8 am 24 March |
50 | |
| 24 March | Unit 3: East Asia | Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (25 March) |
8 am 27 March |
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| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Digital Project assignment | 5 May | 150 | |
| 31 March | Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | 8 am 3 April |
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| Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | 8 am 7 April |
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| 7 April | Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | Imperialism paper | 8 am 10 April |
100 |
| Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam | 14 April | 150 | |
| 14 April | Unit 9: World War I | Last Withdrawal Date (19 April) | 8 am 17 April |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Genocide group project | 8 am 21 April |
100 | |
| 21 April | Unit 11: South Asian Independence | 8 am 24 April |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 28 April |
100 | |
| 28 April | Unit 13: Cold War | 8 am 1 May |
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| Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization | Wikipedia Analysis paper | 8 am 5 May |
100 | |
| 5 May | Unit 15: Twenty-First Century World | Reflective paragraph and Blackboard posting | 8 am 8 May |
25 |
| Unit 16: Final Exam | Final
exam |
10 May | 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