| Week Starts | Topic | Assignments/Critical course Deadlines | Assignment Due Date |
Possible Points |
| 5 September |
Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction paragraph | 8 am 10 September |
50 |
| 9 September |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
8 am 13 September |
50 |
| Unit 3: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | Required American paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (13 September) | 8 am 17 September |
50 | |
| 16 September |
Unit 4: French Revolution | Optional French paragraph | 8 am 20 September |
(25) |
| Unit 5: Industrial Revolution | Required Dickens paper | 8 am 24 September |
100 | |
| 23 September |
Unit 6: Russia in Revolt? | Optional Decembrists paragraph | 8 am 27 September |
(25) |
| Unit 7: Socialism | Midterm Exam Due Date | 1 October | 150 | |
| 30 September |
Unit 8: Nationalism | Required Bismarck Paragraph | 8 am 4 October |
50 |
| Unit 9: Imperialism | *Optional Imperialism paper | 8 am 10 October |
(100) | |
| 7 October |
Unit 10: The Great War | *Optional Remarque paper; Last Withdrawal Date (8 October) | 8 am 11 October |
(100) |
| Unit 11: Russian Revolution | Required Web paper | 8 am 15 October |
100 | |
| 14 October |
Unit 12: Fascism | Required Hitler paragraph | 8 am 18 October |
50 |
| Unit 13: World War II | Extra Credit Special project paper | 8 am 22 October |
(50-100) | |
| 21 October |
Unit 14: Cold War | *Optional Solzhenitsyn paper | 8 am 25 October |
(100) |
| Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam; Course End Date (30 October) | 29 October | 250 | |
| Any Week | Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.) | 50 | ||
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
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.