HIS 102 (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 Introduction paragraph 8 am
21 May
50
20
May
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 May)
8 am
29 May
50
27
May
Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Required American paragraph 8 am
31 May
50
Unit 4: French Revolution Optional French paragraph 8 am
4 June
(25)
3
June
Unit 5: Industrial Revolution
Required Dickens paper
8 am
11 June
100
10
June
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? Optional Decembrists paragraph
8 am
18 June
(25)
17
June
Unit 7: Socialism
Midterm Exam Due Date
25 June 150
24
June
Unit 8: Nationalism
Required Bismarck Paragraph
8 am
28 June
50
Unit 9: Imperialism *Optional Achebe paper 8 am
2 July
(100)
1
July
Unit 10: The Great War
*Optional Remarque paper; Last Withdrawal Date (6July)
8 am
9 July
(100)
8
July
Unit 11: Russian Revolution
Required Web paper
8 am
16 July
100
15
July
Unit 12: Fascism
Required Hitler paragraph
8 am
23 July
50
22
July
Unit 13: World War II
Extra Credit Special Project paper 8 am
26 July
(50-100)
Unit 14: Cold War *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper 8 am
30 July
(100)
29
July
Unit 15: Final Exam 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
 
* You must do one of these three book paper assignments.
 
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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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