HIS 241 (Fall 2012)
16 Week Course Assignment Schedule
22 August 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
22
August
Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History
Introduction paragraph 8 am
27 August
50
26
August
Unit 2: Origins of Rus' Primary Chronicle paragraph
8 am
4 September
50
2
September
Unit 3: Rise of Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (8 September)
9
September
Unit 4: Ivan IV and the Time of Troubles


16
September
Unit 5: Peter the Great Inheritance paragraph
8 am
24 September
50
23
September
Unit 6: Catherine the Great
 
30
September
Unit 7: Alexander I and Napoleon
Midterm Exam Due Date
10 October 200
7
October
Unit 8: The Decembrists
Decembrists paragraph
8 am
15 October
50
14
October
Unit 9: Nicholas I and Official Nationality


21
October
Unit 10: A Marvelous Decade
Belinskii paragraph
8 am
29 October
50
Last Withdrawal Date (31 October)
28
October
Unit 11: Alexander II and the Great Reforms
Turgenev paper
8 am
5 November
100
4
November
Unit 12: The Revolutionary Movement


11
November
Unit 13: A Golden Age of Russian Culture
Russian Culture paper
8 am
19 November
100
18
November
Unit 14: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
Witte paragraph
8 am
25 November
50
25
November
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twentieth Century?
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
 
 
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 in this course.

 

 

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