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.