Shakespeare

Grades

3.74

Average grade awarded in ENGL 90. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.028.

The registrar's own records: 494 grades over 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. No summer session is in that record. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 3.62 to 3.86.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for ENGL 90 ↗

What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before ENGL 90. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Falls

Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

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.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 03 Sep 11:29: the oldest of these 5 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 TR 3:30pm-4:45pm

  Open

  Dickey, S.J.

  3.73

  course average · 494 grades

  43 seats left. 63 of 106 enrolled low risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  limited limited to: New Students Only and Non-English Majors: restrictions read 13 hours ago

  4 discussions, all open.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)

  • Dis 1A

    F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1256

    Open

    4 seats left.

    22 of 26 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Rolfe Hall 3135

    Open

    10 seats left.

    17 of 27 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1256

    Open

    14 seats left.

    13 of 27 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Rolfe Hall 3135

    Open

    15 seats left.

    11 of 26 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 40 and 85 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 40 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.