HIS 112 (Fall 2020)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
24 August Start Date

Grades are recorded in the gradebook in Canvas. 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

24 August

Unit 1: Introduction

Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post

Midnight
27 August

15+

Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Seventeenth-Century paragraph

Midnight
30 August

25

31 August

Unit 3: East Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Discussion post/respond
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (1 September)

Midnight
3 September

5

Unit 4: South Asia and Gunpowder Empires

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
6 September

5

Digital Project choice of topic and type of project

Midnight
1 October

 

Digital Project assignment

Midnight
8 October

150

7 September

Unit 5: European Modernization

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
10 September

5

Unit 6: Africa and the Challenge of Imperialism

Imperialism paper

Midnight
13 September

100

14 September

Unit 7: Latin and Central America in Revolt

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
17 September

5

Unit 8: Russia in Revolt

Midterm Exam

Midnight
20 September

150

21 September

Unit 9: World War I

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
24 September

5

Unit 10: World War II

Genocide group project
Last Withdrawal Date (27 September)

Midnight
27 September

100

28 September

Unit 11: Cold War

Bao Ninh paper

Midnight
1 October

100

Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building in Africa

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
4 October

5

5 October

Unit 13: South Asian Independence

Discussion post/respond
(Digital project from unit 4 due)

Midnight
8 October

5

Unit 14: Latin American Modernization

Wikipedia Analysis paper

Midnight
11 October

100

12 October

Unit 15: The United Nations and the World

Final exam

Midnight
15 October

200

Unit 16: The Emergence of the Pacfic Rim

Reflective paragraph
Discussion post/respond
Course End Date (19 October)

Midnight
18 October

25

 

 

TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS

 

1,000

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Course grades are based on the following scale:

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