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University of Toronto Mississauga

HIS102H5

A History of Discoveries and Inventions in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World.

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Credit0.5
InstructorM. Cowan
PrerequisiteNone listed
Total contact hours24 lecture · 12 tutorial
Evidence1 syllabus · 1 papers
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HIS102H5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

35% final

From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 19 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

This course explores premodern history through the theme of discoveries and inventions. Students will analyze historical debates, develop research and writing skills, and learn to interpret primary and secondary sources.

Prerequisite
None listed
Exclusions
HIS101H5HIS103H5HIS104H5HIS105H5HIS106H5HIS107H5HIS108H5
Contact hours
24 lecture · 12 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Where the marks come from

Fall 2026 syllabus
Final Examination · 35%Tutorial Participation · 20%Revised Research Essay · 15%Short Research Essay · 15%Selecting Secondary Source · 10%Research Questions For A Primary Source · 5%Online Activity 1 · 0%Online Activity 10 · 0%Online Activity 11 · 0%Online Activity 12 · 0%Online Activity 13 · 0%Online Activity 2 · 0%Online Activity 3 · 0%Online Activity 4 · 0%Online Activity 5 · 0%Online Activity 6 · 0%Online Activity 7 · 0%Online Activity 8 · 0%Online Activity 9 · 0%

Extracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

  • must score >= 50% on the final_exam to pass
  • must score >= 50% on the homework to pass

How well we know this course

2023–2025

Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for HIS102H5, across 2 years between 2023 and 2025.

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Final exams
1
Syllabi

Counts, not a library. Pyko does not host or distribute course files, and this page is not an offer to supply one — the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
2 archived documents, 2023-2025Pyko archive2026-07-25index only
Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: M. Cowan)Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)2026-09-05official syllabus

Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

What this opens up

32 courses list HIS102H5 as a prerequisite

The other 30 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names HIS102H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what HIS102H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.

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