| Week Starts |
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment |
Possible Points |
| 8 January |
Unit 1: Introduction
and Themes in Russian History |
Introduction paragraph | 8 am 17 January |
50 |
| 15 January |
Unit 2: Origins of Rus' | Primary
Chronicle paragraph |
8 am 23 January |
50 |
| 22 January |
Unit 3: Rise of
Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands |
Last Refund Date/ First Assignment Due Date Deadline (27 January) |
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| 29 January |
Unit 4: Ivan IV and
the Time of Troubles |
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| 5 February |
Unit 5: Peter the Great | Inheritance
paragraph |
8 am 13 February |
50 |
| 12 February |
Unit 6: Catherine the
Great |
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| 19 February |
Unit 7: Alexander I
and Napoleon |
Midterm Exam Due Date |
27 February | 200 |
| 26 February |
Unit 8: The Decembrists |
Decembrists
paragraph |
8 am 4 March |
50 |
| 11 March |
Unit 9: Nicholas I
and Official Nationality |
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| 18 March |
Unit 10: A Marvelous
Decade |
Belinskii paragraph |
8 am 26 March |
50 |
| Last Withdrawal Date (21 March) | ||||
| 25 March |
Unit 11: Alexander II
and the Great Reforms |
Turgenev paper |
8 am 2 April |
100 |
| 1 April |
Unit 12: The
Revolutionary Movement |
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| 8 April |
Unit 13: A Golden Age
of Russian Culture |
Russian Culture paper |
8 am 16 April |
100 |
| 15 April |
Unit 14: Reaction and
Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II |
Witte paragraph |
8 am 23 April |
50 |
| 22 April |
Unit 15: Whither
Russia in the Twentieth Century? |
Final
exam; Course End Date (7 May) |
30 April | 250 |
| 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