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Looks like there's a lot of emphasis on children's theater and education, and it's one of maybe two such majors in the US. Sounds like a great program!

Children’s education is obviously important, but the degree on the paper doesn’t indicate what you studied in my opinion. Just want folks spending the money to get full credit.

Try to imagine a world without any 3D graphics industry, which within living memory grew whole cloth out of puppetry, model-building, and related fx work.

(I watched puppeteers at my university giving soldering lessons to the freshman EEs. These days I suspect they're leading practical 3D printing.)

That makes sense! I just wouldn’t call it puppetry. I’d also not merge it with theater.

> I just wouldn’t call it puppetry.

Maybe you should do even the most cursory research before dumping a pile of garbage into a discussion then?

Fair point! You're right - I made some assumptions based on its merger into theater rather than something like film or effects or engineering. Pushed me toward a focus on marionettes rather than how to build a puppet, how to engineer puppets, etc, how to use them in film, etc.

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