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 |