HIS 242 (Spring 2012)
16 Week Course Assignment Schedule
9 January 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
8
January
Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History
Introduction paragraph 8 am
17 January
50
15
January
Unit 2: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
Witte paragraph
8 am
23 January
50
22
January
Unit 3: A Silver Age of Russian Culture
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (27 January)
29
January
Unit 4: Marxism


5
February
Unit 5: 1905 1905 paragraph
8 am
13 February
50
12
February
Unit 6: World War I
 
19
February
Unit 7: 1917 and Civil War
Midterm Exam Due Date
27 February 200
26
February
Unit 8: NEP and the Roaring 1920s
Lenin's Testament paragraph
8 am
4 March
50
11
March
Unit 9: Stalinism in the 1930s


18
March
Unit 10: World War II
Last Withdrawal Date (21 March)
25
March
Unit 11: Cold War Abroad
Secret Speech paragraph
8 am
2 April
50
1
April
Unit 12: Thaw at Home
*Optional Solzhenitsyn paper
8 am
9 April
100
8
April
Unit 13: Gorbachev
Gorbachev paragraph
8 am
16 April
50
15
April
Unit 14: The End of the Soviet Union
Russian Culture paper; *Optional Sheets paper
8 am
23 April
100
22
April
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twenty-First Century?
Final exam; Course End Date (7 May)
30 April 250
Any
Week
  Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.)   50
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
* You must do one of these two book paper assignments.
 
 
Blue Separator Bar

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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