HIS 242 (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: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II

Witte paragraph

8 am
5 October
50
Unit 3: A Silver Age of Russian Culture Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (4 October)
7 October Unit 4: Marxism

 

Unit 5: 1905 1905 paragraph 8 am
15 October
50
14 October Unit 6: World War I  
Unit 7: 1917 and Civil War Midterm Exam Due Date 22 October 200
21
October
Unit 8: NEP and the Roaring 1920s Lenin's Testament paragraph 8 am
29 October
50
Unit 9: Stalinism in the 1930s  
28
October
Unit 10: World War II Last Withdrawal Date (29 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
8 November
100
Unit 13: Gorbachev Gorbachev paragraph 8 am
12 November
50
11 November Unit 14: The End of the Soviet Union Russian Culture paper 8 am
15 November
100
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twenty-First 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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