ENGL 150A
Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Lecture.
Spring 2027: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.57
Average grade awarded in ENGL 150A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
66%
of the 321 letter grades
D, F or W
0.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 321 grades over 9 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 9 terms ran 3.14 to 3.71.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 35 · 10.9%
- A 110 · 34.3%
- A- 66 · 20.6%
- B+ 49 · 15.3%
- B 31 · 9.7%
- B- 15 · 4.7%
- C+ 8 · 2.5%
- C 3 · 0.9%
- C- 1 · 0.3%
- F 3 · 0.9%
- P 1 of 329
- NP 1 of 329
- I 6 of 329
Percentages are of the 321 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
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.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DICKEY, STEPHEN J reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 175 | 4 | 68% | light | not teaching it |
| WATSON, ROBERT N reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.66 | 61 | 2 | 79% | light | not teaching it |
| MCEACHERN, CLAIRE reviews ↗ | 3.25 | 3.14 | 50 | 2 | 34% | - | not teaching it |
| OHARE, KATIE ELIZABETH reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.71 | 35 | 1 | 77% | - | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 6 reviews; source checked 6 days 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 5 courses long before ENGL 150A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 150A in Spring 2027 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 and ENGCOMP 2I, 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 3 of the last 4 Springs.
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, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Intensive study of selected poems and representative comedies, histories, and tragedies through Hamlet. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Not published yetno enrollment count published
Instructor
Not yet assigned
3.57Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 321 letter gradesSeat risk
no history
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 15 and 39 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 35 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Spring 2027
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
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.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.
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