| Week Starts | Topic | Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines | Due Date | Possible Points |
| 12 January | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post | 8 am 15 January |
15+ |
| Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Seventeenth-Century paragraph | 8 am 19 January |
50 | |
| 18 January | Unit 3: East Asia | Canvas post/respond |
8 am 22 January |
5 |
| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Unit 4 extra credit | 8 am 26 January |
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| Digital Project choice of topic and type of project | 8 am 23 February |
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| Digital Project assignment | 8 am 2 March |
150 | ||
| 25 January | Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Canvas post/respond | 8 am 29 January |
5 |
| Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | 8 am 2 February |
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| 1 February | Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | Imperialism paper | 8 am 5 February |
100 |
| Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam | 9 February | 150 | |
| 8 February | Unit 9: World War I | 8 am 12 February |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Genocide group project Last Withdrawal Date (14 February) |
8 am 16 February |
100 | |
| 15 February | Unit 11: South Asian Independence | 8 am 19 February |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 23 February |
100 | |
| 22 February | Unit 13: Cold War | 8 am 26 February |
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| Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization | Wikipedia Analysis paper | 8 am 2 March |
100 | |
| 1 March | Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam | 8 am 5 March |
200 |
| Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World | Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting Course End Date (8 March) |
8 March | 25 | |
| 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