HIS 112 (Fall 2012)
16 Week Course Assignment Schedule
22 August 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
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: Persia Required Chardin paper 8 am
10 September
100
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (8 September)
9
September
Unit 4: East Asia
Optional Japan paragraph
8 am
17 September
(25)
16
September
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Required Declaration paragraph
8 am
24 September
50
23
September
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization
Optional Industry paragraph 8 am
1 October
(25)
30
September
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World
*Optional Imperialism paper
8 am
8 October
(100)
7
October
Unit 8: Russia
Midterm Exam Due Date
15 October 150
14
October
Unit 9: World War I
*Optional Remarque paper
8 am
22 October
(100)
21
October
Unit 10: World War II
Required Genocide paragraph 8 am
29 October
50
Last Withdrawal Date (31 October)
28
October
Unit 11: Modernization
Required Web paper
8 am
5 November
100
4
November
Unit 12: Cold War
Extra Credit Special project paper
8 am
12 November
(50-100)
11
November
Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building
Required UN paragraph
8 am
19 November
50
18
November
Unit 14: South Asian Independence
*Optional Gandhi 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
 
* 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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