Concluding Statement

Now that I have completed this class it's hard for me to write a concluding statement because I learned so much and my view was completed changed. Coming into this class I knew little about theater, and didn't really care to know just because I didn't think it would benefit me in life. I knew nothing about theater besides having seen a few plays before. I thought this class was going to be boring but easy, I was wrong on both. I found the class to be a lot more interesting and was not easy. With it being an online class I had to manage my time better because I wanted to space each assignment out so I wasn't doing all of them the last week of the semester. I found the quizzes took a long time and I took each quiz 4 times. The discussion boards were a lot easier and I enjoyed doing them. I have see a few plays on Broadway but they were easy to understand without the knowledge of theater. But now that I have learned what I did from this class, from the quizzes and discussion board posts I have a lot more knowledge. I can go see a play and understand the set, costumes, lighting, and techniques used to put a show together. I can see how theater can relate to everyone's life without them even being aware. That everyday people play different roles, and one can change the role they are playing and chose a new one. I learned about the history of theater and how it is different in other cultures. I learned a lot from the discussion board posts, because this was an online class and there were no lectures this came the most useful to me. I was able to research and do my own post, but also read other classmates posts which had different information and views that opened my mind to other things. I think each classmate shared their own opinion and were able to be create with the posts. I found them to be very helpful and that they taught me a lot. With my major being communications media and thinking about maybe working in advertising and public relations, I found this class useful because it allowed me to use my creative side with writing posts and blogs. I also learned about advertising through the theater field when I had to research popular theaters and shows, and learn how to persuade people to come see these plays. I found that taking this class really did benefit me with my major. And after reading everyone final post I found we can all relate, that we may have come into this class thinking it was going to be easy and that we wouldn't learn anything, but this class took a lot of time and thoughts. I think everyone walked away with more knowledge about theater, and many had little experience before taking this class which I liked because I knew I wasn't the only one. I enjoyed the discussion board posts that had you create your own play with two characters, and the one that was the creative interpretation because it allowed you to open your mind and write whatever you wanted. I found these posts more beneficial then the posts that you had to read and reflect on because I felt like I was just being very repetitive. There were only so many ways I could say I enjoyed reading other students discussion posts. I really enjoyed that seeing a play was mandatory because I like to see a play on Broadway whenever I can. I was able to write a review on a play I saw and enjoyed, I chose Wicked. But I was also supposed to write about the play I went to go see, Into the Heights. It was exciting to go to New York and see a professional play. Overall I am happy I chose intro the theater because I learned new things, it would have been easy for me to take intro to art because I have been taking art classes since I was 10. But I didn't want to learn things I already knew, and with the theater class I knew it was going to be a creative class.