HIS 241 (Summer 2012)
12 Week Course Assignment Schedule
16 May 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
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
 
 
Blue Separator Bar

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 of "C" or better in this course.

 

 

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