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ARTS 190First-Year Topics in Arts Disciplines

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
Arts

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This topics course will be offered from time to time by particular disciplines in Arts, to cover areas of emerging research and teaching interest.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Notes

  • Students should consult the department offering the desired section.

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Reviewed on UW Flow

47% liked it78% easy42% useful

From 93 ratings and 22 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This is a stupid course where you learn nothing useful, just bunch of English grunt work, writing essays. Maybe will give you some high school nostalgia.

    May 2024 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • As a course overall, it's basically English class but at University Level and focused on Engineering. You have to read about engineering topics and make reports and essays. You learn about IEEE citations and you have to speak in front of the class and make a presentation. If you liked English class, you will like this class. Otherwise, it will probably just be boring and a little tedious. But it's not too difficult.

    Oct 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Easy course, just annoying and tedious workloads. Good to brush up on Grammer and Communications skills necessary for interveiws and co ops. But again, the workload, weekly assignments and lenghty readings were very annoying and not useful. The prof was pretty funny at times and helpful though.

    May 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • It was alright. No exams, just writing essays. So long as your grammar and writing is atrocious, it's fairly bird.

    Mar 2023 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • You will pass this course easily as long as you complete the work

    Jan 2023 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

7 posts and comments in 7 threads mention ARTS 190, August 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2024

Fall 2023

I'm Failing in ECE 19 points, 5 comments

“I need some advice, I'm currently in 1A EE and I just got around 40s-50s on all my midterms. This includes Math 115, Math 117, ECE 105, ECE 150. …”

u/Own-River5991: “… Make sure to do well in the mark boosters like ECE 190 and ARTS 190. Arts 190 specifically because it is worth full credit. …”

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Spring 2023

UW advice, Please :) 7 points, 4 comments

u/Rivendell_Narwhal: “… ECE 190, ECE 198 and ARTS 190 were all my least favourite courses, mostly a complete waste of time in my opinion. Nothing to worry about in terms of difficulty but I found ECE 190 and ECE 198 to be big time suckers. I don't really know what I would do differently. …”

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Fall 2021

Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

u/Jackhofmann: “PSYCH 483 PSYCH 484 PSYCH 485 PSYCH 486 PSYCH 490R PSYCH 499A PSYCH 499B PSYCH 499C PSYCH 621 PSYCH 630 PSYCH 677A PSYCH 704A PSYCH 704B PSYCH 707 PSYCH 710 PSYCH 714 PSYCH 717 PSYCH 720A PSYCH 721A …”

u/Jackhofmann: “… ARCH 686 ARCH 691 ARCH 692 ARCHL 101W ARCHL 336W ARCHL 338W ARCHL 344W ARTS 111 ARTS 122 ARTS 190 ARTS 280 ARTS 365 ASTRN 101W AVIA 100 AVIA 203 AVIA 306 AVIA 310 BASE 32 BASE 34 BASE 36 BASE 42 BASE 44 BASE 46 BE 601 BE 606 BET 100 BET 300 BET 310 BET 320 BET 410A BET 411 BET …”

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Spring 2017

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