| Week Starts | Topic | Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines | Due Date | Possible Points |
| 14 March | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post | 8 am 15 March |
15+ |
| Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Seventeenth-Century paragraph | 8 am 19 March |
50 | |
| 19 March | Unit 3: East Asia | Canvas post/respond |
8 am 22 March |
5 |
| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Unit 4 extra credit | 8 am 26 March |
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| Digital Project choice of topic and type of project | 8 am 19 April |
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| Digital Project assignment | 8 am 26 April |
150 | ||
| 26 March | Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Canvas post/respond | 8 am 29 March |
5 |
| Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | 8 am 2 April |
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| 2 April | Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | Imperialism paper | 8 am 5 April |
100 |
| Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam | Anytime 9 April |
150 | |
| 9 April | Unit 9: World War I | 8 am 12 April |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Genocide group project Last Withdrawal Date (16 April) |
8 am 16 April |
100 | |
| 16 April | Unit 11: South Asian Independence | 8 am 19 April |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 23 April |
100 | |
| 23 April | Unit 13: Cold War | (Digital project from unit 4 due) | 8 am 26 April |
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| Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization | Wikipedia Analysis paper | 8 am 30 April |
100 | |
| 30 April | Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam | Anytime 3 May |
200 |
| Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World | Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting Course End Date (8 May) |
8 am 7 May |
25 | |
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
Course grades are based on the following scale:
- 1,000-900: A
- 899-800: B
- 799-700: C
- 699-600: D
- 599-000: F