HIS 112 (Fall 2014)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
15 October Start Date

 
Grades are recorded in the gradebook in Blackboard. For an explanation of the critical course deadlines, highlighted on the schedule in bold, please see the course syllabus.
 
Week Starts Topic Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines Due Date Possible
Points
15 October Unit 1: Introduction Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Blackboard Post 8 am
20 October
15+
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe Seventeenth-Century paragraph 8 am
20 October
50
19 October Unit 3: East Asia

Blackboard post/respond
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (23 October)


8 am
23 October
5
Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? Unit 4 extra credit 8 am
27 October
 
Digital Project choice of topic and type of project 8 am
24 November
 
Digital Project assignment 8 am
1 December
150
26 October Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Blackboard post/respond 8 am
30 October
5
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization   8 am
3 November
 
2 November Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World Imperialism paper 8 am
6 November
100
Unit 8: Russia Midterm Exam 10 November 150
9 November Unit 9: World War I   8 am
13 November
 
Unit 10: World War II Genocide group project
Last Withdrawal Date (17 November)
8 am
17 November
100
16 November Unit 11: South Asian Independence   8 am
20 November
 
Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building Bao Ninh paper 8 am
24 November
100
23 November Unit 13: Cold War   8 am
27 November
 
Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization Wikipedia Analysis paper 8 am
1 December
100
30 November Unit 15: Final Exam Final exam 8 am
7 May
200
Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World Reflective paragraph and Blackboard posting
Course End Date (10 May)
10 May 25
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
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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

 

 

 

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