Tutorials
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each tutorial, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Weeks 2–11 double as the graded weekly checkpoint: 2% each, checked live at the start of that week's session, 20% of the mark in total alongside the 80% carried by the three assessments. Week 1 is orientation and week 12 is capstone studio time — neither runs a graded checkpoint, but week 12 does carry one redeemable checkpoint; see policies for how that works.
Dispatch lab
A hands-on session reverse-engineering a real delivery app's ETA and batching behaviour from the outside
Week 2
Close-reading the system
A structured close read of the Trapped in the System case, separating checkable claims from testimony
Week 3
Control theory workshop
Applying Lee et al.'s directing/evaluating/disciplining taxonomy to real platform mechanisms
Week 4
Resistance tactics seminar
Comparing individual and collective rider workarounds, and what each provokes from the platform
Week 5
Unit economics clinic
Building a single order's cost breakdown by hand from published fee schedules and commission rates
Week 6
Classification moot
A structured moot arguing both sides of China's individual-business-owner registration mechanism
Week 7
Australia case clinic
Working through Gupta v Uber Eats, a pre-reform Fair Work Commission jurisdiction contest, in detail
Week 8
Reform briefing
Mapping the Closing Loopholes minimum-standards order onto the mechanisms studied earlier in semester
Week 9
Typology workshop
Workshopping comparison axes for the same-algorithm-different-country essay in small groups
Week 10
Design studio
Choosing and specifying the mechanism each student will redesign for the capstone
Week 11