| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 4 September |
Unit 1: Introduction | Required Introduction paragraph | 8 am 12 September |
50 |
| 11 September |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
8 am 15 September |
50 |
| Unit 3: Persia | Required Chardin paper; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (14 September) | 8 am 19 September |
100 | |
| 18 September | Unit 4: East Asia | Optional Japan paragraph | 8 am 22 September |
(25) |
| Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Required Declaration paragraph | 8 am 26 September |
50 | |
| 25 September |
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | Optional Industry paragraph | 8 am 29 September |
(25) |
| Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | *Optional Imperialism paper | 8 am 3 October |
(100) | |
| 2 October |
Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam Due Date | 6 October | 150 |
| Unit 9: World War I | *Optional Remarque paper | 8 am 12 October |
(100) | |
| 9 October |
Unit 10: World War II | Required Genocide paragraph; Last Withdrawal Date (9 October) | 8 am 13 October |
50 |
| Unit 11: Modernization | Required Web paper | 8 am 17 October |
100 | |
| 16 October |
Unit 12: Cold War | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 20 October |
(50-100) |
| Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Required UN paragraph | 8 am 24 October |
50 | |
| 23 October |
Unit 14: South Asian Independence | *Optional Gandhi paper | 8 am 27 October |
(100) |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam; Course End Date (31 October) | 31 October | 250 | |
| Any Week | Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) | 50 | ||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule. You may not submit late extra credit work from a course unit. 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.
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 in this course.