Spring 2027

Shakespeare

Introduction to Shakespeare's popular plays and their relation to English and American literature.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Joshua Calhoun

In one review, the course required reading around six Shakespeare books, submitting two papers, and maintaining participation and attendance.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify key issues and themes present in Shakespeare's popular plays.

  • Identify Shakespeare's influence in other English and American literary works.

  • Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance.

  • Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ENGL 162

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JOSHUA CALHOUN is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KAREN BRITLAND is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Joshua Calhoun

Past students found lectures engaging; one student said exams covered explicitly taught content, and another recommended the class for literature credit.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.82 GPA, 92.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.35 GPA, 73.6% A/AB (n=178 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.72 GPA, 87.2% A/AB (n=188 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Joshua Calhoun

In one review, the course required reading around six Shakespeare books, submitting two papers, and maintaining participation and attendance.

Past student reviews · Marek Makowski

A student appreciated an accessible TA who made discussion sections interesting, but noted there was no textbook and copies of five plays had to be purchased.

Topics

  • Shakespeare's popular plays
  • Relation to English and American literature
  • Analysis of literary and cultural texts

Skills

  • Identifying key issues and themes in Shakespeare's plays
  • Identifying Shakespeare's influence in English and American literature
  • Applying methods for analyzing literary and cultural texts
  • Analyzing relationships among society, literature, and language

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 recent terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

5 earlier forecasts · 0.29 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Fall 2024 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1330 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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