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 |
16
May |
Unit 1: Introduction |
Introduction
Paragraph |
8 am
21 May |
50 |
20
May |
Unit 2: The Cold War
|
Paragraph One; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 May) |
8 am
29 May |
50 |
27
May |
|
3
June |
Unit 4: Democracy and Decolonization
|
Paragraph Two
|
8 am
11 June |
50 |
10
June |
|
17
June |
Unit 6: The Changing Modern World
|
Midterm Exam Due Date |
25 June |
200 |
24
June |
Unit 8: The Key Events of the Last Half century
|
Module
Essay 1 Paper
|
8 am
2 July |
100 |
1
July |
Unit 10: The Key Events of the Last Half century
|
Module Essay 2 Paper; Last Withdrawal Date (6 July)
|
8 am
9 July |
100 |
8
July |
|
|
|
|
15
July |
Unit 12: Your Choice
|
Your Personal Choice Assignment
|
8 am
23 July |
100
(at least) |
22
July |
Unit 14: Current Events/Current History
|
Current Events
Paper
|
8 am
30 July |
100 |
29
July |
Unit 15: The Regions of the Modern World
|
Final
Exam; Course End Date (8 August)
|
3 August |
200 |
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
Please remember that you must
pass the final exam with a grade of "C" (140/200) or better to earn a
passing grade of "C" or better in this course.
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