HIS 112 (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 Introduction paragraph 8 am
17 January
50
15
January
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe
Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph
8 am
23 January
50
22
January
Unit 3: Persia Required Chardin paper 8 am
30 January
100
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (27 January)
29
January
Unit 4: East Asia
Optional Japan paragraph
8 am
6 February
(25)
5
February
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Required Declaration paragraph
8 am
13 February
50
12
February
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization
Optional Industry paragraph 8 am
20 February
(25)
19
February
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World
*Optional Imperialism paper
8 am
27 February
(100)
26
February
Unit 8: Russia
Midterm Exam Due Date
5 March 150
11
March
Unit 9: World War I
*Optional Remarque paper
8 am
19 March
(100)
18
March
Unit 10: World War II
Required Genocide paragraph 8 am
26 March
50
Last Withdrawal Date (21 March)
25
March
Unit 11: Modernization
Required Web paper
8 am
2 April
100
1
April
Unit 12: Cold War
Extra Credit Special project paper
8 am
9 April
(50-100)
8
April
Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building
Required UN paragraph
8 am
16 April
50
15
April
Unit 14: South Asian Independence
*Optional Gandhi paper
8 am
23 April
(100)
22
April
Unit 15: Final Exam
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
 
* 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 in this course.

 

 

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