| Week Starts | Topic | Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines | Due Date | Possible Points |
| 22 August | Unit 1: Introduction | Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post | 8 am 25 August |
15+ |
| Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe | Seventeenth-Century paragraph | 8 am 29 August |
50 | |
| 29 August | Unit 3: East Asia | Canvas post/respond |
8 am 1 September |
5 |
| Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? | Unit 4 extra credit | 8 am 5 September |
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| Digital Project choice of topic and type of project | 8 am 29 September |
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| Digital Project assignment | 8 am 6 October |
150 | ||
| 5 September | Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | Canvas post/respond | 8 am 8 September |
5 |
| Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization | 8 am 12 September |
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| 12 September | Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World | Imperialism paper | 8 am 15 September |
100 |
| Unit 8: Russia | Midterm Exam | 19 September | 150 | |
| 19 September | Unit 9: World War I | 8 am 22 September |
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| Unit 10: World War II | Genocide group project Last Withdrawal Date (24 September) |
8 am 26 September |
100 | |
| 26 September | Unit 11: South Asian Independence | 8 am 29 September |
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| Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building | Bao Ninh paper | 8 am 3 October |
100 | |
| 3 October | Unit 13: Cold War | (Digital project from unit 4 due) | 8 am 6 October |
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| Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization | Wikipedia Analysis paper | 8 am 10 October |
100 | |
| 10 October | Unit 15: Final Exam | Final exam | 13 October | 200 |
| Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World | Reflective paragraph and Canvas posting Course End Date (16 October) |
8 am 16 October |
25 | |
| TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS | 1,000 |
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