Online - Dr. Larsen

Units - Last one week

Class divided into three sections

• first two have a midterm
• then a final

Quizzes

• Closed-note
• 16% of grade
• Good review for exams

Discussions

• 14% of grade
• Must answer one question thread per week:
  • Fully answer the question
  • Use examples and evidence from reading & lectures
  • Global in scope
    • not just US/West perspective
• Respond to two people per week

Exams

• 40% of the class
  • 10% each midterm
  • 20% final
• Cumulative
  Objective section
• Chronology questions:
  • Pick from ranges where events happened
  • Order events
• Geography questions:
  • Where things took place
  • The intersection of geography with the key events, actors, and developments that we will read about and discuss throughout the course
• Essays - one on midterms, two on final
  • "Copious amounts of evidence"
  • Can often go either way depending on your analysis
  • At least 5-6 paragraphs, probably more

Section Essays (homework)

• 30% of course
  • 15% each
• 5 pages double-spaced
• Two essays
• Pick question from syllabus
• Choose academic format and mention it in the works cited

Big themes

Three Ages

• Early-modern world (1500-1688)

• Age of Revolutions (1688-1914)

• Age of Extremes (1914-Present)

• Nationalism & the rise of the nation state

• Industrialization

• Imperialism

• Mondernization

• Globalization

• The Environment