| Week Starts | Topic | Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines | Due Date | Possible Points |
| 20 August | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Blackboard Post | 8 am 23 August |
15+ |
| Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Seventeenth-Century paragraph | 8 am 25 August |
50 | |
| 24 August | Unit 3: East Asia | Blackboard post/respond |
8 am 28 August |
5 |
| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Digital Project assignment | 8 am 6 October |
150 | |
| 31 August | Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Blackboard post/respond | 8 am 4 September |
5 |
| Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | 8 am 8 September |
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| 7 September | Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | Imperialism paper | 8 am 11 September |
100 |
| Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam | 15 September | 150 | |
| 14 September | Unit 9: World War I | 8 am 18 September |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Genocide group project Last Withdrawal Date (22 September) |
8 am 22 September |
100 | |
| 21 September | Unit 11: South Asian Independence | 8 am 25 September |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 29 September |
100 | |
| 28 September | Unit 13: Cold War | 8 am 2 October |
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| Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization | Wikipedia Analysis paper | 8 am 6 October |
100 | |
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| 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