HIS 241 (Fall 2012)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
26 September 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
26
September
Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History
Introduction paragraph 8 am
1 October
50
30
September
Unit 2: Origins of Rus'

Primary Chronicle paragraph

8 am
5 October
50
Unit 3: Rise of Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (4 October)
7 October Unit 4: Ivan IV and the Time of Troubles

 

Unit 5: Peter the Great Inheritance paragraph 8 am
15 October
50
14 October Unit 6: Catherine the Great  
Unit 7: Alexander I and Napoleon Midterm Exam Due Date 22 October 200
21
October
Unit 8: The Decembrists Decembrists paragraph 8 am
29 October
50
Unit 9: Nicholas I and Official Nationality  
28
October
Unit 10: A Marvelous Decade Belinskii paragraph;Last Withdrawal Date (29 October) 8 am
1 November
50
Unit 11: Alexander II and the Great Reforms Turgenev paper 8 am
5 November
100
4 November Unit 12: The Revolutionary Movement  
Unit 13: A Golden Age of Russian Culture Russian Culture paper 8 am
12 November
100
11 November Unit 14: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II Witte paragraph 8 am
15 November
50
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twentieth Century? Final exam; Course End Date 20 November) 19 November 250
Any Week   Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.)   50
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
 
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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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