THEATER 30
Dramatic Writing
Studio.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 12 hours ago.
Grades
3.87
Average grade awarded in THEATER 30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 342 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 342 grades over 15 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 15 terms ran 3.38 to 4.00.
Historical grades for OSWALD, SYLVAN MARDER, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 47 · 59.5%
- A 28 · 35.4%
- B+ 2 · 2.5%
- B- 1 · 1.3%
- C+ 1 · 1.3%
Percentages are of the 79 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VILLARREAL, EDIT E reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.81 | 207 | 9 | 89% | very light | not teaching it |
| OSWALD, SYLVAN MARDER reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 79 | 3 | 95% | - | Open, 7 seats left |
| TAYLOR, DOMINIC ANTHONY reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.92 | 29 | 1 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| HURLEY, PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 4.00 | 27 | 2 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| AKLAGI, PEJMAN reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 4.00 | 16 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 4 reviews; source checked 6 days ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Studio, three hours. Intended for Theater minors and other nonmajors. Exploration and development of creative writing skills for one or more of various forms of entertainment media. May be repeated once. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
-
Seats
Open7 seats left.
13 of 20 enrolled
Instructor
Oswald, S.M. and Swanson, G.N.
3.93Predicted GPA
Historical records for OSWALD, SYLVAN MARDER; 79 letter gradesSeat risk
medium risk -
Seats
Open8 seats left.
12 of 20 enrolled
Instructor
Oswald, S.M. and de Forest, A.A.
3.93Predicted GPA
Historical records for OSWALD, SYLVAN MARDER; 79 letter gradesSeat risk
medium risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 20 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 15 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking THEATER 30 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.
Looking for more perspectives?
External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.
Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Stu 1 · Oswald, S.M. and Swanson, G.N. · 13 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 12 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 7 seats.
Stu 2 · Oswald, S.M. and de Forest, A.A. · 12 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 12 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 6.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.