University of London, Queen Mary

This course examines processes, techniques, and modes of expression used by contemporary theater-makers to create a variety of forms. The course examines how the performance-making processes of significant practitioners function analytically, creatively, and practically. Students consider how practitioners strategically deploy methodologies, conventions, and techniques to produce particular outcomes, and how process is informed by content, genre, mode of representation, theatrical convention, and ideological and cultural context. Students learn methods of workshopping and performing that can create stimulating and engaging theater. Theater-makers examined may include DV8 Physical Theater, the Wooster Group, Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Robert Lepage's Ex Machina, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Complicite, Grid Iron, and Station House Opera.

This course investigates the theory behind techniques adopted by professionals in marketing, sales, public policy as well as general business negotiation environments in order to change stakeholder behavior and attitudes, influence outcomes, and gain compliance. Students explore, compare, and integrate a variety of theories of persuasion grounded in research from the fields of psychology and marketing.

This course covers sustainable and unsustainable development; the economic determinants of population growth; strategies of population control; intertemporal resource management; renewable and exhaustible resources; global warming, ozone depletion, and acid rain externalities, and the control of pollution; economic management of forest resources; and the exploitation of the sea. Assessment is by a final exam for 75% and coursework for 25%.

This course provides students with an introduction to central themes and concepts in Sociology, and applies them to particular cases. Students learn what is distinctive about a sociological imagination of contemporary and historical concerns and helps them see how our individual lives are connected to global developments such as climate change, migration, and the advancement of digital technology. Students are also introduced to how class, gender, race, identity, and religion organize relations in an era of globalization. 

States spend a great deal of time and effort justifying their actions with law, yet international relations scholars have often doubted international law's ability to shape state behavior. This course examines this paradox by introducing the major debates about the politics of international law. These perspectives are applied to the history of international organizations and (legal) order since 1919, including the development of collective security and humanitarianism at the League of Nations and United Nations., particularly since the creation of the United Nations in 1945.