Week Starts |
Topic |
Required Assignments and Critical Course Deadlines |
Due Date |
Possible
Points |
21 October |
Unit 1: Introduction |
Introduction
Paragraph, Syllabus Quiz and Discussion Post |
Midnight
Thursday
24 October
|
15 |
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe |
Seventeenth-Century paragraph |
Midnight
Sunday
27 October
|
25 |
28 October |
Unit 3: East Asia |
Discussion post/respond
Last Refund Date/First Assignment Due Date Deadline (25 October)
|
Midnight
Thursday
31 October
|
5 |
Unit 4: Persia, a Gunpowder Empire? |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
Sunday
3 November
|
|
Digital Project choice of topic and type of project |
Midnight
Thursday
28 November
|
|
Digital Project assignment |
Midnight
Thursday
5 December
|
150 |
4 November |
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
Thursday
7 November
|
5 |
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
Sunday
10 November
|
|
11 November
|
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World |
Imperialism paper |
Midnight
Thursday
14 November
|
100 |
Unit 8: Russia |
Midterm Exam |
Midnight
Sunday
17 November
|
150 |
18 November |
Unit 9: World War I |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
Thursday
21 November
|
|
Unit 10: World War II |
Genocide group project
Last Withdrawal Date (21 November) |
Midnight
Sunday
24 November
|
100 |
25 November |
Unit 11: South Asian Independence |
Discussion post/respond |
Midnight
Thursday
28 November
|
|
Unit 12: Decolonization and Nation-Building |
Bao Ninh paper |
Midnight
Sunday
1 December
|
100 |
2 December |
Unit 13: Cold War |
Discussion post/respond
(Digital project from unit 4 due) |
Midnight
Thursday
5 December
|
|
Unit 14: Worldwide Modernization |
Wikipedia Analysis paper |
Midnight
Sunday
8 December
|
100 |
9 December |
Unit 15: Final Exam |
Final
exam |
Midnight
Thursday
12 December
|
200 |
Unit 16: Twenty-First Century World |
Reflective paragraph and Discussion posting
Course End Date (16 December) |
Midnight
Sunday
15 December
|
25 |
|
|
TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS |
|
1,000 |