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Dibs Fall 2026

ENGL 90

Shakespeare

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to English majors or students with credit for course 150A or 150B. Survey of Shakespeare's plays, including comedies, tragedies, and histories, selected to represent Shakespeare's breadth, artistic progress, and total dramatic achievement. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.73
n = 458 · 7 terms · ± 0.025
A range
83%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
7%
92% of those passed
D / F / W
3.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
57 of 86
66% full
 could fill TR 3:30pm-4:45pm Little, A.L.
3.73n=458 · course average

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 7221F
  • 6622S
  • 7022F
  • 7023W
  • 7423F
  • 8524W
  • 6125W
Enrolment by term: 21F 72, 22S 66, 22F 70, 23W 70, 23F 74, 24W 85, 25W 61
Peak 85 Most recent 61 in 25W 7 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 75 · 15.1%
  • A 215 · 43.2%
  • A- 90 · 18.1%
  • B+ 47 · 9.4%
  • B 8 · 1.6%
  • B- 6 · 1.2%
  • C+ 4 · 0.8%
  • C 2 · 0.4%
  • D+ 3 · 0.6%
  • D 1 · 0.2%
  • D- 2 · 0.4%
  • F 5 · 1.0%
  • P 34 · 6.8%
  • NP 3 · 0.6%
  • DR 3 · 0.6%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
WATSON, ROBERT N 3.69 3.68 203 3 78%
LITTLE, ARTHUR L 3.80 3.81 192 3 87%
LITTLE, ARTHUR L, JR 3.64 3.62 63 1 86%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term