The purpose of the 2000 level course, which you appear to be rather familiar with, is to give you the foundation that a 3000 level course works to build on.

That being said, every teacher will be different, especially when shakespeare is involved. there are 40 works of shakespeare in the cannon, so you could potentially have 6 different shakespeare teachers and still never read all of those works. all teachers will teach him differently.

I took my first 3000 level course the spring semester of my freshman year and was pleasantly surprised with the material and expectations. don’t let the course number scare you, oftentimes they are just given a 3000 ranking because they are more than just a survey/intro class.

I completed a 4000 level Shakespeare class last semester (spring of my sophomore year) and had no problem understanding the material. what usually works best is reading the original shakespeare work alongside a website such as sparknotes (which provides a section called ‘no fear shakespeare’ that offers line for line modern english translation).

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