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<p>Yes and no. You have one very small (like 30 pages giant comic sans print) book you read about different types of stages and some other things. I think we spent 1 class on this. We played a LOT of theater games (sometimes the whole class, which for me was 1 hr 45 min) and we had to do 2 skits for the semester: a made up scene as our “midterm” and a scene from a play as our “final”. Plus we had to see all 4 theater shows that Pitt put on that semester (cost about $35 for the season pass IIRC) and write a short 1-3 paragraph summary of our opinion on what we had seen.</p>
<p>Overall: super easy, a LOT of fun (seriously!) and pretty good class. They keep them small (about 20 students per class) so you really get to know your classmates. It’s popular among the athletes as a fulfillment of their “arts” requirement, my class had a starting football player, two soccer players, and a softball player in it. But we also had engineers, science majors, theater majors, etc.</p>