| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 3 June |
Unit 1: Introduction | Required Introduction paragraph | 8 am 10 June |
50 |
| 9 June |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (11 June) |
8 am 13 June |
50 |
| Unit 3: Persia | Required Chardin paper | 8 am 17 June |
100 | |
| 16 June | Unit 4: East Asia | Optional Japan paragraph | 8 am 20 June |
(25) |
| Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Required Declaration paragraph | 8 am 24 June |
50 | |
| 23 June |
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | Optional Industry paragraph | 8 am 27 June |
(25) |
| Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | *Optional Imperialism paper | 8 am 1 July |
(100) | |
| 30 June |
Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam Due Date | 5 July | 150 |
| Unit 9: World War I | *Optional Remarque paper; Last Withdrawal Date (6 July) | 8 am 8 July |
(100) | |
| 7 July |
Unit 10: World War II | Required Genocide paragraph | 8 am 11 July |
50 |
| Unit 11: Modernization | Required Web paper | 8 am 15 July |
100 | |
| 14 July |
Unit 12: Cold War | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 18 July |
(50-100) |
| Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Required UN paragraph | 8 am 22 July |
50 | |
| 21 July |
Unit 14: South Asian Independence | *Optional Gandhi paper | 8 am 24 July |
(100) |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam; Course End Date (28 July) | 26 July | 250 | |
| Any Week | Online Discussion (Post during the course.) | 50 | ||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
There are specific assignment deadlines in this course, and these are listed on the course schedule. 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. You may not submit late extra credit work. You may not take a required exam late.
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F
Please remember that 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.