HIS 242 (Fall 2012)
16 Week Course Assignment Schedule
22 August 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
22
August
Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History
Introduction paragraph 8 am
27 August
50
26
August
Unit 2: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II
Witte paragraph
8 am
4 September
50
2
September
Unit 3: A Silver Age of Russian Culture
Last Refund Date/
First Assignment Due Date Deadline (8 September)
9
September
Unit 4: Marxism


16
September
Unit 5: 1905 1905 paragraph
8 am
24 September
50
23
September
Unit 6: World War I
 
30
September
Unit 7: 1917 and Civil War
Midterm Exam Due Date
10 October 200
7
October
Unit 8: NEP and the Roaring 1920s
Lenin's Testament paragraph
8 am
15 October
50
14
October
Unit 9: Stalinism in the 1930s


21
October
Unit 10: World War II
Last Withdrawal Date (31 October)
28
October
Unit 11: Cold War Abroad
Secret Speech paragraph
8 am
5 November
50
4
November
Unit 12: Thaw at Home
Solzhenitsyn paper
8 am
12 November
100
11
November
Unit 13: Gorbachev
Gorbachev paragraph
8 am
19 November
50
18
November
Unit 14: The End of the Soviet Union
Russian Culture paper
8 am
26 November
100
25
November
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twenty-First Century?
Final exam; Course End Date (17 December)
3 December 250
Any
Week
  Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.)   50
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
 
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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