HIS 112 (Fall 2012)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
26 September 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 home page.
 
Week Starts Topic Assignments/Critical course Deadlines Assignment
Due Date
Possible
Points
26
September
Unit 1: Introduction Required Introduction paragraph 8 am
1 October
50
30
September
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph

8 am
4 October
50
Unit 3: Persia Required Chardin paper; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (4 October) 8 am
10 October
100
7 October Unit 4: East Asia Optional Japan paragraph 8 am
11 October
(25)
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Required Declaration paragraph 8 am
15 October
50
14 October Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization Optional Industry paragraph 8 am
18 October
(25)
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World *Optional Imperialism paper 8 am
22 October
(100)
21
October
Unit 8: Russia Midterm Exam Due Date 26 October 150
Unit 9: World War I *Optional Remarque paper 8 am
29 October
(100)
28
October
Unit 10: World War II Required Genocide paragraph; Last Withdrawal Date (29 October) 8 am
1 November
50
Unit 11: Modernization Required Web paper 8 am
5 November
100
4 November Unit 12: Cold War Extra Credit Special project paper 8 am
8 November
(50-100)
Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building Required UN paragraph 8 am
12 November
50
11 November Unit 14: South Asian Independence *Optional Gandhi paper 8 am
15 November
(100)
Unit 15: Final Exam Final exam; Course End Date (20 November) 19 November 250
Any Week   Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.)   50
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
* You must do one of these three book paper assignments.
 
 
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The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule. You may not submit late extra credit work from a course unit. You may submit any of the course assignments, or optional course assignments late, but the maximum point value will then be reduced by one-half.

Course grades are based on the following scale:

  • 1,000-900:  A
  •    899-800:  B
  •    799-700:  C
  •    699-600:  D
  •    599-000:  F

Please remember that you must pass the final exam with a grade of "C" (175/250) or better to earn a passing grade in this course.

 

 

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