Series consists of records documenting Robert McDonald’s teaching activities and includes course outlines and syllabi, lecture notes, class handouts, newspaper clippings, website printouts, and other materials used to develop course content. It is organized by course number into the following sub-series: History 135 – History of Canada, History 235 – History of Canada, History 303 – History of the Canadian West, History 305 – British Columbia, History 329 – Canadian Social History, History 404 – British Columbia, History 433 – Fourth-Year Honours Seminar, History 490 – Seminar for Majors in History, History 500 – Readings in Canadian History, and History 597 – Topics in Comparative History.
Files have been largely retained in their original order, which would have reflected the order in which subjects were presented in class. There is some overlap in contents between some of the sub-series, particularly in cases where the course has been re-numbered, but the subject remains the same.