See the list of due dates below. For context, you may want to pick up a good world history textbook, if you do not already own one, at a second-hand bookstore. This is not a lecture course. It is essential that you attend all meetings, read assignments on time, participate regularly in discussions, and have reports ready by the meeting for which they are assigned. In order to return papers within a week of receiving them, it is essential that I receive them when due.
Extensions are normally available only when requested in advance of the due date.
Papers turned in late without such an extension will normally not be accepted. Papers that are raw draft rather than finished pieces of writing will normally be returned without grading for revision, and the final version marked down one letter grade. The course grade will be based roughly equally on your contributions to discussions, your oral reports, and your papers. There are no examinations.