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. 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
“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 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.