HIS 241 (Spring 2012)
16 Week Course Assignment Schedule
9 January 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
8
January
Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History
Introduction paragraph 8 am
17 January
50
15
January
Unit 2: Origins of Rus' Primary Chronicle paragraph
8 am
23 January
50
22
January
Unit 3: Rise of Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (27 January)
29
January
Unit 4: Ivan IV and the Time of Troubles


5
February
Unit 5: Peter the Great Inheritance paragraph
8 am
13 February
50
12
February
Unit 6: Catherine the Great
 
19
February
Unit 7: Alexander I and Napoleon
Midterm Exam Due Date
27 February 200
26
February
Unit 8: The Decembrists
Decembrists paragraph
8 am
4 March
50
11
March
Unit 9: Nicholas I and Official Nationality


18
March
Unit 10: A Marvelous Decade
Belinskii paragraph
8 am
26 March
50
Last Withdrawal Date (21 March)
25
March
Unit 11: Alexander II and the Great Reforms
Turgenev paper
8 am
2 April
100
1
April
Unit 12: The Revolutionary Movement


8
April
Unit 13: A Golden Age of Russian Culture
Russian Culture paper
8 am
16 April
100
15
April
Unit 14: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
Witte paragraph
8 am
23 April
50
22
April
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twentieth Century?
Final exam; Course End Date (7 May)
30 April 250
Any
Week
  Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.)   50
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
 
Blue Separator Bar

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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