What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Every lecture the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team
reference. A course decides how many lectures it needs; one of them carries a
real deck. related: connects lectures to the practicals and assessments they
feed.
Observation as Evidence
How to observe something that should not be there.
What the course studies, why it insists "applied" is not decoration, and the observe–classify–countermeasure method that structures the semester.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Behavioural Classification
When an anomaly repeats, but never quite the same way.
How to test a case against persistent / recurring / responsive / dormant rather than just recite the labels, using a benign-looking object's dual profile as the worked example.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Comparative Warding
Protective practices across cultures.
Why this course treats nine independently-arrived-at warding traditions, named explicitly as themselves, as countermeasure data rather than folklore to be explained away.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Fieldwork Safety Protocol
What to do when observation becomes participation.
The three real-world safety traditions this course's fieldwork protocol borrows from, and the case next week that makes the buddy-system rule's necessity concrete rather than abstract.
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Case Clinic I
The seminar room that reads larger inside than the floor plan allows.
Applying the classification scheme live for the first time, the case that finally gives the buddy system real teeth, and the corpus's first real fieldwork test of a week-3 measure.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Case Clinic II
Thirteen steps down. Sometimes you end up back where you started.
How to turn a week of field logs into a case file a marker can assess, using the seminar room and the 13-step stairwell as worked examples.
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Sourcing and Evidence
A striking story and a sourced one are not the same thing.
Three ways a documented case can fail the sourcing test without being obviously fake, and the persistent-plus-dormant reveal held back since week 2.
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Comparative Analysis
The same ritual, summoned the same way, on two continents with no contact between them.
Bloody Mary and Hanako-san read side by side as the same responsive- ghost-in-an-institutional-fixture case with no plausible line of transmission between them, plus a sourcing-integrity lesson about the Charlie Charlie Challenge.
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Convergence and Causation
The pattern is real. What causes it is still an open question.
What the pooled regional and global cases do and don't support, and why the course treats a single unifying cause as a live question rather than a conclusion this phase is entitled to.
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Explanatory Frameworks
Comparing theories precise enough to be proven wrong.
Cosmic prisoner theory and shadow domain theory held to the falsifiability test the practical sets, and what three real, citable frameworks say instead, once you stop looking for a single cause.
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Hypothesis and Dissent
The leading explanation for campus anomalies is still not a settled one.
Where the fourth-dimensional hypothesis actually stands — its strongest support, its open dissenters, and why this course does not treat "leading" as "concluded."
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Capstone Protocol
Turning a semester of method into a protocol for a case no one has observed yet.
A joint review of the whole semester's method, and the containment or warding protocol it all points to — a design task, not a recital.
Week 12 · 10 May 2027