Week Starts |
Topic |
Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines |
Due Date |
Possible
Points |
13 January |
Unit 1: Introduction |
Introduction
Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post |
Midnight
16 January |
15+ |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe |
Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
Midnight
19 January |
25 |
20 January |
Unit 3: East Asia |
Discussion post/respond
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (21 January)
|
Midnight
23 January |
5 |
Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
26 January |
5 |
Digital Project choice of topic and type of project |
Midnight
20 February |
|
Digital Project assignment |
Midnight
27 February |
150 |
27 January |
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
30 January |
5 |
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
2 February |
5 |
3 February |
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World |
Imperialism paper |
Midnight
6 February
|
100 |
Unit 8: Russia |
Midterm Exam |
Midnight
9 February |
150 |
10 February |
Unit 9: World War I |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
13 February |
5 |
Unit 10: World War II |
Genocide group project
Last Withdrawal Date (15 February) |
Midnight
16 February |
100 |
17 February |
Unit 11: South Asian Independence |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
20 February |
5 |
Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building |
Bao Ninh paper |
Midnight
23 February |
100 |
24 February |
Unit 13: Cold War |
Discussion post/respond
(Digital project from unit 4 due) |
Midnight
27 February |
5 |
Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization |
Wikipedia Analysis paper |
Midnight
1 March |
100 |
2 March |
Unit 15: Final Exam |
Final
exam |
Midnight
5 March |
200 |
Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World |
Reflective paragraph and discussion posting
Course End Date (8 March) |
Midnight
8 March |
25 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |