ENGL 3273

i recommend this class to anyone who at least sort of somewhat likes/is interested in shakespeare's plays and maybe has read one or two of his plays in highschool. lectures are interesting but not necessary for the 3 essays (75% of grade) or the final (25% of grade). about 7~ plays are covered, but if you don't have time to read them, just skim the summaries before discussion. same for the essays-- they're close readings, so you really only need to know what's going on on one page of the play you're writing about. overall, not much work on a weekly basis. i took this class as a stem major trying to fulfill the second writing req and i'm pretty satisfied with having taken it.

I liked reading Shakespeare in HS and feeling "educated" from it so I'd recommend this class if you like reading it. It covered 7 plays and in the end even by the final I had only gone through 5 and a 1/2 oops.

Week to week the work is to read the play portion assigned for the upcoming class, and commenting a small thing on Collab for the discussion that week. Same sorta concept as other classes- you understand lectures best if you read beforehand but you can catch up later. then the class has 3 papers over the semester, and a final that's some multiple choice and writing.

I ended with a B but I definitely could've put more time towards it and it's not impossible to get an A at all! Your grade pretty much depends on your TA though, they grade your papers and your final too I think. I had Anna James and she was great (nice, really knowledgeable, good at critiquing papers, flexible) so just make sure you pick a good TA, and put some effort in that they'll see like going to office hours.

Professor Maus was an absolutely wonderful, thoroughly engaging lecturer. Even as a STEM major in a class primarily comprised of English majors (duh), I genuinely enjoyed every lecture and found the workload (papers + a final exam) manageable. Grading is performed by TAs, but I did not find it unfair, and I know my TA was just excellent: knowledgable, understanding, willing to help, and funny.

I've really approximated weekly time requirements. The class did move fairly quickly, covering approximately 7-8 plays in 15 weeks, with meetings twice a week. That being said, we only to wrote a paper on every other play, so at bare minimum, you could throughly study merely 3-4 plays and still write excellent papers. All plays were fair game in the final however, and I definitely would suggest taking the time to at least read along so that you may understand Professor Maus's lectures!