ENGL 90
Shakespeare
Lecture and discussion.
Winter 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 7 days 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. 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.
- 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). 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 |
“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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 90, so it cannot say what comes before it.
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
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 : the oldest of these 5 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 TR 2:00pm-3:15pmOpen3.69this instructor · 203 grades
33 seats left. 67 of 100 enrolled -
not checked yet4 discussions, all open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Bunche Hall 3123
Open10 seats left.
15 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Kaufman Hall 153
Open11 seats left.
14 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Bunche Hall 3123
Open6 seats left.
19 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Kaufman Hall 153
Open6 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.
Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
Lec 1 · Watson, R.N. · 67 of 100 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 67 of 100.
Across the 1 hour from 27 Aug 03:05 to 27 Aug 03:06, dibs holds a read record for 1 of them. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a flat run here means checked and unchanged.