Shakespeare
ENGL 162 introduces students to Shakespeare's popular plays and their connections to English and American literature.
Summary
Historical reviews of David Loewenstein, Joshua Calhoun: Workload includes reading approximately six Shakespeare plays and submitting two papers, with TA-dependent weekly homework and essay grading standards.
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Prerequisites
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Professors
Fall 2026No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Karen Britland: Karen Britland is described as an engaging lecturer who makes material interesting and is compassionate toward students. Reviewers note her class has a lower workload than most, though grading is handled by TAs, which introduces variability in student outcomes.
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.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Joshua Calhoun describe an engaging and enjoyable experience with accessible exams, though attendance is recommended for test preparation.
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
Historical reviews of David Loewenstein, Joshua Calhoun: Workload includes reading approximately six Shakespeare plays and submitting two papers, with TA-dependent weekly homework and essay grading standards.
Historical reviews of Karen Britland, Marek Makowski: Students value interesting lectures and helpful TAs, but note that purchasing five play texts is required and TA grading can vary in difficulty.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
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Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 3 same-season 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.
7 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.
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Through Fall 2026
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About this comparison
1333 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.
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Model & dataset provenance
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