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)