HIST 253Canada: Cultures and Conflicts in the Colonial Era

Units: 0.50
Faculty: Arts
Subject: History

When it runs

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course examines the major themes in pre-Confederation Canadian history including the rise and fall of New France, the creation of British North American societies in the Maritimes and Upper Canada, and economic and political development.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
Section	Class	Enrolled	Meets
LEC 001	4140	0 / 25	TTh 08:30–09:20
LEC 701	1628	11 / 9999	Online or by arrangement
DIS 101	4141	0 / 12	TTh 09:30–10:20
DIS 102	4142	0 / 13	TTh 09:30–10:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

38% liked it85% easy60% useful

From 8 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

This is a course for people who want to learn fast and learn a lot. Professor Roberts runs this class very interactively, so take this class if you enjoy that. Each week is a new topic, so there is defeinitly something for everyone. The only real assignment for the Class was a ~10 page essay (Not marked too harshly) on a topic of your choice for 75% of the grade. A free weekend somewhere over the term and you can hammer it out.

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Before this class, I had no experience doing research projects. This is an excellent class for getting you started in that direction. At least with my prof, the work was independent and we had classes about navigating the library and the library website, as well as workshops about applying your sources to your writing. Plus the lecture content was all about events along the colonial timeline of Canada, so finding a research topic was a bit difficult but only because there were a lot of ideas to choose from. But everything was outlined in such a way that it was easy to orient and, at least in my experience, the workload was not heavy at all.

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if you like to learn anything but history, this is the course.

Mar 2026 · didn’t like itOn UW Flow Remove this
the Tutorials ran like game show Q and A, but the essays were easy and straight forward

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

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Spring 2014

Aug 3, 2014 MSCI 211 Online. Easy course? 1 point, 2 comments

[deleted]: “… to be announced Sociology: SOC 101 Humanities-based Courses English: ENGL 105A History: HIST 253, 254, 275 Philosophy: PHIL 250A, 250B, 315 (GENE 412) Thanks in advance!”

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Spring 2012

May 2, 2012 Exchange student, some questions 6 points, 16 comments

u/rmvvwls: “… Something like this I also need another general subject to enrol into, and HIST253 seemed pretty good. Anyone have any other recommendations? Any clubs you'd recommend? …”