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 |
16 May |
Unit 1: Introduction and Themes in Russian History |
Introduction Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Canvas Post |
Midnight |
15+ |
Unit 2: Origins of Rus' |
Primary Chronicle paragraph |
Midnight |
50 |
|
23 May |
Unit 3: The Mongol Invasion |
Mongol paragraph |
Midnight |
50 |
Unit 4: Rise of Moscow and the Gathering of the Lands |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight |
5 |
|
30 May |
Unit 5: Ivan IV and the Time of Troubles |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight |
5 |
Unit 6: Peter the Great |
Inheritance paragraph |
Midnight |
50 |
|
6 June |
Unit 7: Catherine the Great |
|
Midnight |
|
Unit 8: Alexander I and Napoleon |
Midterm Exam |
Midnight |
150 |
|
13 June |
Unit 9: The Decembrists |
Decembrists' paragraph |
Midnight |
50 |
Unit 10: Nicholas I and Official Nationality |
Tolstoi paper |
Midnight |
100 |
|
20 June |
Unit 11: A Marvelous Decade |
Belinskii paragraph |
Midnight |
50 |
Unit 12: Alexander II and the Great Reforms |
Turgenev paper |
Midnight |
100 |
|
27 June |
Unit 13: The Revolutionary Movement |
|
Midnight |
|
Unit 14: Reaction and Modernization under Alexander III and Nicholas II |
Witte group project |
Midnight |
100 |
|
4 July |
Unit 15: Whither Russia in the Twentieth Century? |
Final exam |
Midnight |
250 |
Unit 16: Golden and Silver Ages of Russian Culture |
Reflective paragraph |
Midnight |
25 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
1,000 |
Course grades are based on the following scale:
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