Week Starts
|
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines |
Assignment
Due Date |
Possible Points |
16
May |
Unit 1: Introduction
and Themes in Russian History
|
Introduction
paragraph |
8 am
21 May |
50 |
20
May |
Unit 2: Origins
of Rus' |
Primary
Chronicle paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 May)
|
8 am
29 May |
50 |
27
May |
Unit 3: Rise of
Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands
|
|
|
|
Unit 4: Ivan IV and
the Time of Troubles |
3
June |
Unit 5: Peter the Great |
Inheritance
paragraph
|
8 am
11 June |
50 |
10
June |
Unit 6: Catherine the
Great
|
|
|
|
17
June |
Unit 7: Alexander I
and Napoleon
|
Midterm Exam Due Date
|
25 June |
200 |
24
June |
Unit 8: The Decembrists
|
Decembrists
paragraph
|
8 am
2 July |
50 |
1
July |
Unit 9: Nicholas I
and Official Nationality
|
|
Unit 10: A Marvelous
Decade |
Belinskii paragraph; Last Withdrawal Date (6 July) |
8 am
9 July |
50 |
8
July |
Unit 11: Alexander II
and the Great Reforms
|
Turgenev paper
|
8 am
12 July |
100 |
Unit 12: The
Revolutionary Movement |
|
15
July |
Unit 13: A Golden Age
of Russian Culture
|
Russian Culture paper
|
8 am
23 July |
100 |
22
July |
Unit 14: Reaction and
Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
|
Witte paragraph
|
8 am
30 July
|
50 |
29
July |
Unit 15: Whither
Russia in the Twentieth Century?
|
Final
exam; Course End Date (8 August)
|
3 August |
250 |
Any
Week |
|
Online
Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) |
|
50 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |