Spring 2027

Acting I: Introduction to Acting

Introduction to Acting provides a basic overview of acting craft, developing actor tools related to voice, movement, language skills, and engaging communication for professional and personal contexts.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Stephen Tabor3.6/5N'Jameh Russell-Camara

Summary

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Past student reviews · Stephen Tabor

The course required few assignments beyond participation and acting, with extra credit opportunities available for major tests and essays.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

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Raw average: 3.50/5 from 2 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Past student reviews · Stephen Tabor

Stephen Tabor created a safe, respectful environment for learning, with few assignments beyond participation and acting. He provided relevant feedback and offered extra credit opportunities for major work.

Another student found Tabor's grading harsh and his feedback passive-aggressive, advising non-acting majors to choose a less critical instructor.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.54 GPA, 71.7% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.53 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Past student reviews · Jessica Lanius

Jessica Lanius taught a fun, engaging course where students attended two university plays and performed a monologue and a partner scene. Grading included multiple opportunities to maintain high scores. Homework involved self-reflection writing and script analysis, which one student noted was a decent amount.

AUDREY STANDISH is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHELSEA ANDERSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JESSICA LANIUS is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STEPHEN TABOR is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

WHITNEY DERENDINGER is recorded teaching in Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Stephen Tabor

Stephen Tabor created a safe and respectful environment for actors to learn, emphasizing individual and group growth through consistent, relevant feedback.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.65 GPA, 78.7% A/AB (n=75 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.71 GPA, 85.9% A/AB (n=71 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=70 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Stephen Tabor

The course required few assignments beyond participation and acting, with extra credit opportunities available for major tests and essays.

Past student reviews · Stephen Tabor

One student found the grading unnecessarily harsh and the instructor passive-aggressive, recommending non-acting majors take the class with a less critical professor.

Topics

  • Craft of acting
  • Voice, movement, language skills, and engaging communication
  • Application of actor training skills in professional and personal endeavors

Skills

  • Voice, movement, language skills, and engaging communication
  • Basic introduction to the craft of acting

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

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Selected offering source records
THEATRE 150 · Spring 2027

Acting I: Introduction to Acting

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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