| Week Starts |
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment |
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 |
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