ENGL 90
Shakespeare
Lecture and discussion.
Winter 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
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 WATSON, ROBERT N, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 12 · 5.9%
- A 97 · 47.8%
- A- 50 · 24.6%
- B+ 30 · 14.8%
- B 3 · 1.5%
- B- 3 · 1.5%
- C+ 3 · 1.5%
- C 1 · 0.5%
- D+ 1 · 0.5%
- D- 1 · 0.5%
- F 2 · 1.0%
- P 15 of 221
- NP 1 of 221
- DR 2 of 221
Percentages are of the 203 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 | Winter 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 | Open, 33 seats left |
| 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 11 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 2 mentions in past reviews
- 2 papers, 10 mentions in past reviews
Based on 64 reviews; source checked about 2 months 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 Winter 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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open33 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 67 of 100 enrolled
Seat risk
-4 discussions, all open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 4 discussions
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Open
10 seats left.
15 of 25 enrolled
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Open
11 seats left.
14 of 25 enrolled
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Open
6 seats left.
19 of 25 enrolled
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Open
6 seats left.
19 of 25 enrolled
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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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Watson, R.N. · 67 of 100 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 67 of 100.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
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