This class is very informative and full of fun. Highly recommend.
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Love Prof Gorshein! takes the time to know his students and a kind soul

If you're looking for an easy GE with a great professor I'd highly recommend this class.

it was okay i guess. but i hated the lectures tho. the professor is so...idk abstract? his lectures are so disorganized and it's really hard to find all the important points in his lectures

Extremely easy class. Didn't read any of the plays for the final and still got a 49/50. Class can be borings at times but overall it's good and fun.

LOVED Dr. Gorshein. He kept the class extremely engaging, the 2 hours just flew by. The amount of homework is completely manageable and his lectures were super interesting. He tried to know everyone's name by the end of the quarter which made the class feel like a family. The midterm covered only 3/4 of what we learned the first half of the quarter and the final only covered half of what we learned post-midterm (and was extremely straightforward). Highly recommend this class as an easy and super interesting GE if you're into theater!

What is not required of this class:
1. The lecture videos- not tested on, not required for any of the weekly assignments
2. 80% the readings- wait till he comes out with the study guide and just do those readings. The final is all from them and the questions are super easy. Some discussion board posts will require you to reference a reading and the papers will ask for that too, but its super easy readings that you could literally just find one quote to use that is perfect.
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I only watched 10 minutes of the first lecture, that's it. You literally don't need to watch the lectures at all. The final exam is multiple choice or true or false, it took me all of 4 minutes to finish, I probably could've gotten a 90% even without the class. The questions are that easy (what is an actor?, true/false a play has this character in it). There's weekly discussion board posts that, in my case were graded super leniently, I would put like 2-3 really basic sentences down and get full credit (possibly graded on completion). All in all, this class is super easy and super low workload. The plays are cool and some of the readings are genuinely interesting. Don't worry about the super long historical and factual readings, you won't be tested on them. We tested on 3 plays (all very easy reads), vocab, and like 2 articles.

I genuinely hated this class, I found the professor extremely condescending constantly talking to us like we were in preschool. It got to the point where he would ignore my hand raised to ask a question for 5 minutes because he did not care. He was incapable of properly explaining assignments which made the assignments hard because there was no way to know what he wanted.

This class was a JOKE. Would highly recommend if you're looking for an easy A, tests were very basic and were based on a few of the readings. I just read the sparknotes of a few of the plays and that was sufficient. Good GE to take if you have a busy workload.

I feel like this class was the perfect class for someone who doesn't care about their degree. It's an easy A- class, which I actually enjoyed because I need to graduate in three years. I think a lot of people that are going here for their education would be really triggered with this class, which I can understand. The in-class assignments were weird and busy work. Most of them were just to fill time. There was this one time week eight that we were just sent outside in groups to do a worksheet that we weren't supposed to complete, so a lot of people got triggered but it was just to fill time. Participation is required for this class sadly. You do have to show up to TA sections, which were the most stimulating times, and you do have to show up to lecture to fill out an answer about that week's reading in your bluebook. It's just for attendance. What's annoying is that you do kinda have to do the readings to complete the quizzes, which felt very randomized. Some questions were too easy while others were extremely obscure and hard. I scored poorly on the quizzes but I got a 98 on the final essay. It helps to be a good writer throughout this series. They don't really help improve your writing, but they do help you understand broad concepts so you can write about them. There are two essays in this class, one is the midterm and one is the final. They are both worth a lot, but they also have the same topic. So chose you're topic early and get researching. This is how the other parts in the series work as well. I chose my play in week 3 for 101B and wrote the final essay week 6, so I was chilling throughout the rest of the quarter thank goodness. Knowing you theater majors, you're probably taking 22 units, so make sure the 101 series isn't as pesky as it can become over time. The final essay was to recreate a theatrical performance or ritual from that time period. So for example, you could write about the process of scandinavian burials or you could write about a Shakespeare play as if you were there. You would have to get sources from the time. You need three primary sources and like 7 secondary sources. I may have exaggerated those numbers, but I remember it being a lot. I actually think that was the amount. It was a real research paper. It was the most free-form out of all the essays you'll write in the series, so take it for granted. Anyways, this class was boring. Some of the slides had one photo on them with no context lol. There were a lot of inside jokes that came from this class, so try to find some enjoyment in it even if it may not come from learning.