HIS 102 (Summer 2012)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
30 May Start Date
 
 
Grades are recorded in the 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
30
May
Unit 1: Introduction Introduction paragraph 8 am
4 June
50
3
June
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph

8 am
7 June
50
Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Required American paragraph; Last Refund Date/Blackboard Sign-In Deadline (7 June) 8 am
11 June
50
10 June Unit 4: French Revolution Optional French paragraph 8 am
14 June

(25)

Unit 5: Industrial Revolution Required Dickens paper 8 am
18 June
100
17
June
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? Optional Decembrists paragraph 8 am
21 June
(25)
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 (3 July) 8 am
5 July
(100)
Unit 11: Russian Revolution Required Web paper 8 am
9 July
100
8
July
Unit 12: Fascism Required Hitler paragraph 8 am
12 July
50
Unit 13: World War II Extra Credit Special project paper 8 am
16 July
(50-100)
15
July
Unit 14: Cold War *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper 8 am
19 July
(100)
Unit 15: Final Exam Final exam; Course End Date (25 July) 23 July 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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