HIS 112 (Fall 2020)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
20 October 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

20 October

Unit 1: Introduction

Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post

Midnight
23 October

15+

Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Seventeenth-Century paragraph

Midnight
25 October

25

26 October

Unit 3: East Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Discussion post/respond
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 October)

Midnight
29 October

5

Unit 4: South Asia and Gunpowder Empires

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
1 November

5

Digital Project choice of topic and type of project

Midnight
26 November

 

Digital Project assignment

Midnight
3 December

150

2 November

Unit 5: European Modernization

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
5 November

5

Unit 6: Africa and the Challenge of Imperialism

Imperialism paper

Midnight
8 November

100

9 November

Unit 7: Latin and Central America in Revolt

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
12 November

5

Unit 8: Russia in Revolt

Midterm Exam

Midnight
15 November

150

16 November

Unit 9: World War I

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
19 November

5

Unit 10: World War II

Genocide group project
Last Withdrawal Date (22 November)

Midnight
22 November

100

23 November

Unit 11: Cold War

Bao Ninh paper

Midnight
26 November

100

Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building in Africa

Discussion post/respond

Midnight
29 November

5

30 November

Unit 13: South Asian Independence

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

Midnight
3 December

5

Unit 14: Latin American Modernization

Wikipedia Analysis paper

Midnight
6 December

100

7 December

Unit 15: The United Nations and the World

Final exam

Midnight
10 December

200

Unit 16: The Emergence of the Pacfic Rim

Reflective paragraph
Discussion post/respond
Course End Date (14 December)

Midnight
13 December

25

 

 

TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS

 

1,000

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Course grades are based on the following scale:

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