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 |