| Week Starts |
Topic |
Assignments/Critical Course Deadlines | Assignment |
Possible Points |
| 16 May |
Unit 1: Introduction
and Themes in Russian History |
Introduction paragraph | 8 am 21 May |
50 |
| 20 May |
Unit 2: Reaction and
Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II |
Witte
paragraph; Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (28 May) |
8 am 29 May |
50 |
| 27 May |
Unit 3: A Silver Age
of Russian Culture |
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| Unit 4: Marxism | ||||
| 3 June |
Unit 5: 1905 |
1905 paragraph |
8 am 11 June |
50 |
| 10 June |
Unit 6: World War I | |||
| 17 June |
Unit 7: 1917 and
Civil War |
Midterm Exam Due Date | 25 June | 200 |
| 24 June |
Unit 8: NEP and the
Roaring 1920s |
Lenin's
Testament paragraph |
8 am 2 July |
50 |
| 1 July |
Unit 9: Stalinism in
the 1930s |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Last Withdrawal Date (6 July) | |||
| 8 July |
Unit 11: Cold War
Abroad |
Secret Speech
paragraph |
8 am 12 July |
50 |
| Unit 12: Thaw at Home | Solzhenitsyn paper | 8 am 16 July |
100 | |
| 15 July |
Unit 13: Gorbachev |
Gorbachev
paragraph |
8 am 23 July |
50 |
| 22 July |
Unit 14: The End of
the Soviet Union |
Russian Culture
paper |
8 am 30 July |
100 |
| 29 July |
Unit 15: Whither
Russia in the Twenty-First Century? |
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 | |||
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