ENGL 90
Shakespeare
Grades
3.74
Average grade awarded in ENGL 90. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 494 letter grades
D, F or W
2.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
93% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 494 grades over 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 3.62 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 79 · 16.0%
- A 239 · 48.4%
- A- 94 · 19.0%
- B+ 48 · 9.7%
- B 9 · 1.8%
- B- 6 · 1.2%
- C+ 5 · 1.0%
- C 3 · 0.6%
- D+ 3 · 0.6%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- D- 2 · 0.4%
- F 5 · 1.0%
- P 38 of 538
- NP 3 of 538
- DR 3 of 538
Percentages are of the 494 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and withdrawals (DR).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLE, ARTHUR L reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.81 | 228 | 4 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| WATSON, ROBERT N reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.68 | 203 | 3 | 78% | light | not teaching it |
| LITTLE, ARTHUR L, JR reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.62 | 63 | 1 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 11 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 10 reviewers
Read from 64 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before ENGL 90. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 90 in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. 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 Springs
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably.
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 Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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