Professor Gorschein is awesome. The class is online anyway so there wasn't much change to his plan. I found a newfound appreciation for live theatre through his class and once things get back to normal I would really like to attend live performances. There was weekly homework based on the readings and a midterm paper and final. This was all simple and graded leniently.

This is a great and easy GE. I am a STEM major and not at all into acting lol! The only acting you actually have to do is a short video for extra credit (so it's completely optional). The readings and videos are interesting and pretty light in workload. The essays are graded fairly easy and it isn't hard to succeed in this class.

This class is the best move

Didn't really learn that much but it was an easy A. Lectures were just him talking about theater and the readings were a bit long, but you don't have to read it if you didn't want to.

TAKE THIS GE!!!

Cannot stress enough how easy and flexible this class was especially when I combined it with two other summer courses (major reqs) and working a part-time job. Dr. Gorshein basically has everything laid out in the syllabus and there are routine discussion posts and quizzes each week relating to the screenings, reading and lecture. There is one essay in this class (~1000-1200 words) but you can write about anything theater-related and Dr. Gorshein is very helpful through the process. I ended up writing about Japanese theater and he gave me lots of resources to support my thesis. **also!! there are three different paper deadlines to choose from, all spaced two weeks from each other so you get to choose when you want to do it by. I chose the earliest just to get it out of the way**
I really liked how quick the TA and professor would respond to emails and the quick feedback we'd get for our quiz, discussion, and essay scores. I have no regrets with this class and highly recommend. It was so relaxing and I actually did enjoy learning about theater with Dr. Gorshein.

Took this class to wrap up my BA. Pretty easy, but the TA was probably a little harsh for a GE like this. I got a high grade on all my papers, but the grade distribution wasn't great when I peeped it. Also, Prof. has a weird liking for AI. Brought it up for discussion assignments a couple times. Anyways, for a five unit class I would take it again.

Taking musical theatre history with Professor Gorshein is much like attending a musical: you feel as if you are transported into a whole different realm filled with delightful songs and dance, educational history, and valuable lessons. During every lecture, I found myself travelling back in history to witness the first show boat or on stage singing alongside Dorothy from The Wiz! or dancing with anxious auditionees from The Chorus Line and returning from my adventure with Hamilton stuck in my head -- completely forgetting how I was actually stuck in a miserable little dorm room in the middle of an awful pandemic.

The course covers a variety of musical theatre-related topics and shows in a diverse set of historical contexts. I was absolutely astounded by how much history and interesting information was examined in such a brief 6 weeks! The weekly quizzes are fair and help reinforce both lecture material and assigned readings, which are provided on the course website and neatly organised by week. I really enjoyed the weekly discussion forum posts, where I had the opportunity to both become enlightened by my fellow classmates' diverse perspectives and share a bit of my own insights. Even if you aren't a theatre major or minor, consider taking this course; plenty of my classmates came from south campus and had just as many eye-opening contributions as my fellow performers!

Professor Gorshein truly brings to life such wonderfully intriguing material in the most engaging and effective way. I would certainly recommend this course to anyone who has a passion for history, the performing arts, learning - or all the above!

easiest c sesh class ever do it