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

 

 

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