HIS 102 (Summer 2012)
6 Week Course Assignment Schedule
27 June 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
27
June
Unit 1: Introduction Introduction paragraph 8 am
2 July
50
1
July
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph

8 am
3 July
50
Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Required American paragraph; Last Refund Date/Blackboard Sign-In Deadline (3 July) 8 am
7 July
50
Unit 4: French Revolution Optional French paragraph 8 am
9 July

(25)

8 July Unit 5: Industrial Revolution Required Dickens paper 8 am
12 July
100
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? Optional Decembrists paragraph 8 am
13 July
(25)
Unit 7: Socialism Midterm Exam Due Date 16 July 150
15
July
Unit 8: Nationalism Required Bismarck Paragraph 8 am
19 July
50
Unit 9: Imperialism *Optional Achebe paper 8 am
23 July
(100)
22
July
Unit 10: The Great War *Optional Remarque paper; Last Withdrawal Date (22 July) 8 am
25 July
(100)
Unit 11: Russian Revolution Required Web paper 8 am
27 July
100
Unit 12: Fascism Required Hitler paragraph 8 am
30 July
50
29
July
Unit 13: World War II Extra Credit Special project paper 8 am
1 August
(50-100)
Unit 14: Cold War *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper 8 am
3 August
(100)
Unit 15: Final Exam Final exam; Course End Date (8 August) 6 August 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 of "C" or better in this course.

 

 

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