How the Course Works

Course Description: 15 week writing-intensive course in world history to 1500.

Text: William Duiker/Jackson Spielvogel, World History (New York: West-Wadsworth, 1998) and use the internet as a hypertext to expand and clarify text book material, themes, and ideas.

Mechanics:

Send an email identifying yourself and high school to me at: bill.schell@murraystate.edu.

Submit your weekly assignments to me by email as attachments in Mircosoft Word each Friday.

Refer problems and questions about the course to me or to the MSU Center for Continuing Education: natalie.thurmond@murraystate.edu.

Navigating the Course. Click on the Horse  to return to the syllabus. If a link takes you to another web site, use the Back and Forward browser button to return to the web course.

Do the required textbook reading before navigating the web so that you surf the web with a purpose. Be advised--web surfing is time consuming and your time is limited. When you encounter an interesting site with a lot of text, it is best to print it rather than read it from the computer screen.

Assignments.

• fourteen 500 word essays on image and interpretation (1 per week)
• fourteen 1000 word essays on assigned questions (1 per week)
• One 6000 word research paper on a topic of your choice (approved by me)
• create a small web page on your research paper topic using illustrations-images, at least 3 internal links, and 3 links to other sites.
• Submit all assignments on Friday by email to bill.schell@murraystate.edu as attachments in Microsoft Word.
• Writing assignments will be graded equally on content and quality.
• Late assignments lose one letter grade.

Grading Scale.

100 - 90%  =  A;   89 - 80%  =  B;   79 - 70%  =  C;   69 - 60%  =  D;   below  =  fail                                fourteen  500 word essays  (@  50 pts)      =     700 pts                                fourteen 1000 word essays (@ 100 pts)     =    1400 pts                                 research paper                                              =      300 pts                                web page construction                                 =      100 pts                                                                 Total  =  2500 pts

Common Final Examination.

All MSU CIV students must get  50% or above on the Common Final Examination to pass the course.

The exam consists of  60 multiple-choice questions based on the Common Final Identification List.

The Common Final will be given Thursday 13 Dec. at 4:00 under a proctor and at a place determined by the MSU Center for Continuing Education natalie.thurmond@murraystate.edu.

To Begin the Course.

Double-click on Syllabus to open web-ports to civilizations and assignments. Each web-port has a list of www. links as well as links in images and text to augment your textbook reading. Navigational Aids contains a master list of course web sites.

Syllabus

Navigational Aids