HIS 112 (Spring 2017)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
9 January Start Date

 
Grades are recorded in the gradebook in Canvas. For an explanation of the critical course deadlines, highlighted on the schedule in bold, please see the course syllabus.
 
Week Starts Topic Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines Due Date Possible
Points
9 January Unit 1: Introduction Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post

8 am
12 January

15+
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe Seventeenth-Century paragraph

8 am
16 January

50
16 January Unit 3: East Asia

Canvas post/respond
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (17 January)


8 am
19 January

5

Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire?

Unit 4 extra credit

8 am
23 January

 

Digital Project choice of topic and type of project

8 am
16 February

 

Digital Project assignment

8 am
23 February

150

23 January Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

Canvas post/respond

8 am
26 January

5

Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization  

8 am
30 January

 
30 January Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World Imperialism paper

8 am
2 February

100
Unit 8: Russia Midterm Exam

Anytime
6 February

150
6 February Unit 9: World War I  

8 am
9 February

 
Unit 10: World War II Genocide group project
Last Withdrawal Date (11 February)

8 am
13 February

100

13 February

Unit 11: South Asian Independence  

8 am
16 February

 
Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building Bao Ninh paper

8 am
20 February

100

20 February

Unit 13: Cold War

(Digital project from unit 4 due)

8 am
23 February

 
Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization

Wikipedia Analysis paper

8 am
27 February

100
27 February Unit 15: Final Exam Final exam

Anytime
2 March

200
Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting
Course End Date (5 March)

8 am
5 March

25
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
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The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule.

There are extra credit options available in each unit of the course: (1) You may submit one item of extra credit in each unit of the course; (2) you may not submit extra credit work from a unit once that unit has been completed; (3) you may not submit extra credit work if you are not up-to-date on the course required assignments.

Course grades are based on the following scale:

  • 1,000-900:  A
  •    899-800:  B
  •    799-700:  C
  •    699-600:  D
  •    599-000:  F

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