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Course Schedule


Please note that the assignment deadlines in this schedule are listed in US/Eastern Time. For more about due dates, see "About Time Zones and Deadlines."

GETTING STARTED (SEPTEMBER 9)

    • Course site opens
    • Assignment (individual): Bellini (due Sunday, September 17 by 22:00 EDT)
    • Assignment: Team Formation


WEEK 1 (SEPTEMBER 16)

    • Watch: Lecture 1 (Peoples and Plunderers) and Lecture 2 (Warfare and Motion)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 11


WEEK 2 (SEPTEMBER 23)

    • Watch: Lecture 3 (Clashing Worlds) and Lecture 4 (Atlantic Worlds)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 12 
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 1 (due Friday, September 29 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 3 (SEPTEMBER 30)

    • Watch: Lecture 5 (Indian Ocean Worlds) and Lecture 6 (The Worlds that Merchants Made)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 13
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 2 (due Friday, October 6 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 4 (OCTOBER 6)

    • Watch: Lecture 7 (Asian Dynamism and the Seventeenth-Century Global Crisis) and Lecture 8 (Empire and Enlightenment)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 14 
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 3 (due Friday, October 13 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 5 (OCTOBER 13)

    • Watch: Lecture 9 (The World in Revolution) and Lecture 10 (States and Nations)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 15
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 4 (due Friday, October 20 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 6 (OCTOBER 20) 

    • Watch: Lecture 11 (Global Frontiers) and Lecture 12 (Empires and Nations)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 16


Optional Fall break (October 28 to November 3)


WEEK 7 (OCTOBER 27) 

    • Watch: Lecture 13 (Worlds in Motion) and Lecture 14 (Empire Redux)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 17
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 5 (due Friday November 10 by 22:00 EDT) (Please note that you have 2 weeks to complete this case study)


WEEK 8 (NOVEMBER 10) 

    • Watch: Lecture 15 (Retreat of the Elephants) and Lecture 16 (The World, 1914)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 17
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 6 (due Friday, November 17 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 9  (NOVEMBER 17)

    • Watch: Lecture 17 (Civilization and its Discontents) and Lecture 18 (Worlds at War)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 18
    • No case study 


WEEK 10  (NOVEMBER 24)

    • Watch: Lecture 19 (Atrocities) and Lecture 20 (Aftermaths)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 18 
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 7 (due Friday, December 1 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 11 (DECEMBER 1)

    • Watch: Lecture 21 (Recoveries) and Lecture 22 (Inventing the Third World)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapters 20 & 21
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 8 (due Friday, December 8 by 22:00 EDT)


WEEK 12 (DECEMBER 8)

    • Watch: Lecture 23 (Crisis and Globalization) and Lecture 24 (The Cunning of History)
    • Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 21
    • Assignment (team): Case Study 9 (due Friday, December 15 by 22:00 EDT)