Week Starts
|
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines |
Assignment
Due Date |
Possible Points |
22
August |
Unit 1: Introduction |
Introduction
paragraph |
8 am
27 August |
50 |
26
August |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe |
Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph
|
8 am
4 September |
50 |
2
September |
Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment |
Required American paragraph |
8 am
10 September |
50 |
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (8 September) |
9
September |
Unit 4: French Revolution
|
Optional French paragraph
|
8 am
17 September |
(25) |
16
September |
Unit 5: Industrial Revolution |
Required Dickens paper
|
8 am
24 September |
100 |
23
September |
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt?
|
Optional Decembrists paragraph |
8 am
1 October |
(25) |
30
September |
Unit 7: Socialism
|
Midterm Exam Due Date
|
10 October |
150 |
7
October |
Unit 8: Nationalism
|
Required Bismarck Paragraph
|
8 am
15 October |
50 |
14
October |
Unit 9: Imperialism
|
*Optional Imperialism paper
|
8 am
22 October |
(100) |
21
October |
Unit 10: The Great War
|
*Optional Remarque paper |
8 am
29 October |
(100) |
Last Withdrawal Date (31 October) |
28
October |
Unit 11: Russian Revolution
|
Required Web paper
|
8 am
5 November |
100 |
4
November |
Unit 12: Fascism
|
Required Hitler paragraph
|
8 am
12 November |
50 |
11
November |
Unit 13: World War II
|
Extra Credit Special Project paper
|
8 am
19 November |
(50-100) |
18
November |
Unit 14: Cold War
|
*Optional Solzhenitsyn paper
|
8 am
26 November |
(100) |
25
November |
Unit 15: Final Exam |
Final
exam; Course End Date (17 December)
|
3 December |
250 |
Any
Week |
|
Online
Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) |
|
50 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |