ENGL 3273

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!

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.

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.

This is a great class, but you have to be really interested in Shakespeare to enjoy it. You read a total of 7 plays outside of lecture and discussion, so the workload is fairly heavy. That being said, Professor Maus is a great lecturer, and picks her TA's well. TA's do all of the grading, but it did not feel unfair by any means, both were simultaneously objective and understanding. The assignments consist of 3 essays and a final- when I was enrolled, the final consisted of a passage ID section (play & speaker) and an essay section, where you picked two passages from the first part and wrote a short essay on each. #tCFS25