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Section on Financial Aid for Winter Session:
"The Wesleyan Winter Session Financial Aid Application opens October 6, 2025 and closes at noon, Friday, October 31, 2025.
Awards will be emailed by the end of the day Wednesday, November 5, 2025. Students should expect to contribute to the cost of Winter Session."

THEA265Z Acting for the Camera (online)
Instructor: Maria-Christina Oliveras, Assistant Professor of Theater
This course counts in the Theater Arts category for the Theater Major

Course Description:

This studio course will explore the fundamentals of acting for the camera. A wide range of exercises and techniques will be used to cultivate a sense of ease and freedom and to develop the imagination, relaxation, concentration, focus and technical skills required to create life in front of the camera. The course will explore both film and television, and include auditioning and current industry film/tv practices, as well as how to navigate ZOOM and other online platforms in professional readings, workshops, livestreams, and auditions. By the end of the course, students will have honed techniques enabling them to bring their full selves to the camera with confidence and a lack of self-consciousness, and be familiar with self-tapes, auditioning, and current industry practices and protocols in the film/tv/theater industry.

THEA222Z Reimagining Dante's Inferno: Social Justice and the Arts (online)

Instructor: Ronald Jenkins, Professor of Theater 

This course counts in the Theater Methods category for the Theater Major

Course Description:
Sentenced to death for crimes he did not commit, Dante Alighieri wrote his epic poem about a journey from hell to heaven in an impoverished state of exile. Drawing on innovative techniques of music, dance, painting, and theater Dante denounced political corruption and social injustice in a story that has inspired artists throughout the world to create new work about the search for freedom, including the Russian dissident poet Osip Mandelstam, Black revolutionary playwright Amiri Baraka, the Chinese artist/activist Wei Wei, and 17th century prisoners of the Inquisition. Students will read selected cantos from Dante's "Commedia," consider contemporary news accounts of modern equivalents to medieval injustices, examine previous adaptations of the poem, and devise their own responses to Dante in the art form of their choice (theater, dance, poetry, playwriting, rap, music, spoken-word, visual arts). 

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