Fall 2026

Acting Skills for Life

THEATRE 200: ACTING SKILLS FOR LIFE teaches students to apply acting techniques to professional presentations, interviews, and interpersonal interactions.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Clare Haden4.3/5Anna GebarskiSYDNEY Curran

Summary

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Reviewers describe the course as easy with minimal work, noting short readings and informal writing assignments that are easy to meet.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Fall 2026

Clare Haden

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Raw average: 5.00/5 from 20 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.

For this course: 5.0/5 raw quality · 1.1/5 difficulty · 7 reviews

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Clare Haden is consistently described as kind, supportive, and passionate, with reviewers noting her personalized feedback and flexibility. Students report that the course is easy, engaging, and applicable beyond theatre, though some find the workload light. Her asynchronous format is praised for its speed and accessibility.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.76 GPA, 86.1% A/AB (n=137 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.56 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=120 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 88.8% A/AB (n=179 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 88.8% A/AB (n=179 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANNA GEBARSKI is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CLARE HADEN is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. 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

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
SEM 001Online Only34 / 300
SEM 002Online Only30 / 300
SEM 003Online Only30 / 300
SEM 004Online Only30 / 300
SEM 006Online Only30 / 300
SEM 007Online Only30 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Clare Haden is consistently praised as kind, supportive, and effective, with students reporting high satisfaction and easy workloads across multiple terms.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.76 GPA, 86.1% A/AB (n=137 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.56 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=120 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 88.8% A/AB (n=179 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Reviewers describe the course as easy with minimal work, noting short readings and informal writing assignments that are easy to meet.

Students value Haden's rapid grading and personalized feedback in the asynchronous format, finding her active online presence motivating and useful.

Topics

  • Application of acting to business and educational contexts
  • Interviews, presentations, and elevator pitches

Skills

  • Enhancing confidence and communication in professional settings
  • Authentic personal connection and interpersonal interaction
  • Managing stage fright and performance anxiety

Grades

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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.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1283 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

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Selected offering source records
THEATRE 200 · Fall 2026

Acting Skills for Life

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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