| 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 |
8 am 23 October |
5 |
| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Unit 4 extra credit | 8 am 27 October |
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| Digital Project choice of topic and type of project | 8 am 24 November |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 24 November |
100 | |
| 23 November | Unit 13: Cold War | 8 am 27 November |
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| 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 |
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