Practicals
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each practical, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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Orientation: observational method basics
The course's baseline method — log what you see, corroborate before you classify, never intervene — introduced before any fieldwork begins.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Historical taxonomies of anomalous phenomena
How the course's classification scheme took its present shape, and why three earlier taxonomies were retired rather than patched.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Comparative warding: nine traditions, read as applied research
Nine independently-developed protective traditions, from three continents and no shared contact between them, named explicitly as themselves and read as countermeasure research rather than folklore.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Fieldwork method & safety protocol
The rules that make on-campus observation safe to run at all — informed consent, the buddy system, and the disengagement rule that ends an observation before it costs anyone anything.
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Case clinic 1: the seminar room past the bricked-over fire door
The first supervised on-campus observation — a disused Arts Annex seminar room, marked "do not reassign" on the facilities floor plan, that reads as larger on the inside than the corridor outside allows.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Case clinic 2: the 13-step stairwell
The second supervised on-campus observation, and the week the Field Case File is due — a stairwell that returns you to the floor you started on after exactly thirteen steps, sometimes.
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Regional case survey: comparative method
Moving from the course's own two campus cases to a survey of documented regional cases, and the comparative method that makes cases from different sources comparable at all.
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Global case survey: the international corpus as primary source data
Widening the same comparative method to a global corpus of documented cases, treated as primary source material rather than folklore to be filtered out.
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Comparative analysis: convergence across cases
Pooling the regional and global surveys to ask what the cross-case convergence actually supports — and where the Comparative Literature Review, due this week, has to stop short of a verdict.
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Competing frameworks: cosmic prisoner theory, shadow domain theory, and others
A survey of the theoretical frameworks currently offered to explain the convergence identified in week 9 — read as competing, evidence-bearing claims, not a menu to choose from.
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
The unifying fourth-dimensional hypothesis
The framework most cases in the corpus are currently read against — presented as leading, not settled, and held to the same falsifiability standard as every framework in week 10.
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Final debrief and practical wrap-up
The closing practical — reviewing the semester's cases and frameworks together, in the week the Final Capstone is due.
Week 12 · 10 May 2027