HIS 112 Course Schedule

HIS 112
Course Schedule

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.

UNIT	TOPIC	ASSIGNMENT	POINTS	GRADE
1	Introduction	Required Introduction paragraph	50
2	Seventeenth-Century Europe	Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph	50
3	Persia	Required Chardin paper Last Refund Date/ Blackboard Sign-In Deadline	100
4	East Asia	Optional Japan paragraph (25 pts.)
5	Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment	Required Declaration paragraph	50
6	Industrialization and Western Modernization	Optional Industry paragraph (25 pts.)
7	Nineteenth-Century World	*Optional Achebe paper (100 pts.)
8	Russia	Midterm Exam	150
9	World War I	*Optional Remarque paper (100 pts.)
10	World War II	Required Genocide paragraph Last Withdrawal Date	50
11	Modernization	Required Web paper	100
12	Cold War	Extra Credit Special project paper (50-100 pts.)
13	Decolonization and Nation-Building	Required UN paragraph	50
14	South Asian Independence	*Optional Gandhi paper (100 pts.)
15	Final Exam	Final Exam Course End Date	250
Any unit		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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GRADING
Course grades are based on the following scale:

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