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 |