HIS 112 (Summer 2012)
12 Week Course Assignment Schedule
16 May Start
 
 
Grades are recorded in your 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
16
May
Unit 1: Introduction Introduction paragraph 8 am
21 May
50
20
May
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe
Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 May)
8 am
29 May
50
27
May
Unit 3: Persia Required Chardin paper 8 am
4 June
100
3
June
Unit 4: East Asia
Optional Japan paragraph
8 am
7 June
(25)
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Required Declaration paragraph 8 am
11 June
50
10
June
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization Optional Industry paragraph
8 am
14 June
(25)
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World *Optional Achebe paper 8 am
18 June
(100)
17
June
Unit 8: Russia
Midterm Exam Due Date 25 June 150
24
June
Unit 9: World War I
*Optional Remarque paper
8 am
2 July
(100)
1
July
Unit 10: World War II
Required Genocide paragraph; Last Withdrawal Date (6 July)
8 am
9 July
50
8
July
Unit 11: Modernization
Required Web paper
8 am
16 July
100
15
July
Unit 12: Cold War
Extra Credit Special project paper
8 am
19 July
(50-100)
Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building Required UN paragraph 8 am
23 July
50
22 July Unit 14: South Asian Independence
*Optional Gandhi paper
8 am
30 July
(100)
29
July
Unit 15: Final Exam
Final exam; Course End Date (8 August)
3 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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