Here's a link to the course syllabus.It's a living document so make sure to refer to it to ensure you've got the latest info.

Course Description: Experimental writing pushes past the creative boundaries of existing traditional storytelling techniques to explore new ways of telling new stories. As a politicized aesthetic created in response to cultural crisis, it is all about breaking the rules and creating new ones! In this class, we will read and create work that offers alternative ways of experiencing drama, reconsidering history, and interpreting identity. We will focus on innovative storytelling techniques that are playful, bizarre, risky, or controversial. Works that alter conventions of space, theme, language, and other elements. Works that push against the assimilationist impulses of traditional theatre to create innovative ways of engaging with the audience as citizens. In this class, theatre becomes a laboratory for a radical re-envisioning of the world.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the key elements that make a work avant-garde.
  
• Develop a foundational understanding of pivotal texts in Western avant-garde theatre and place experimental works in their historical, social, and political contexts.
  
• Analyze how plays function ideologically in society.
  
• Craft and communicate a manifesto or critical perspective for your experimental writing, addressing the issues your work responds to in the world.
  
• Cultivate a distinct point of view, a critical component of any artist's journey, by creating an original piece of theatre.
  
• Write an artist’s manifesto.
  
• Write an experimental play.