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## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Field Dispatch](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/assessments/field-dispatch/): A short, individual case study — take one documented fungal partner whose role shifts by host or context, and argue whether "double agent" survives contact with the evidence.
- [The Peace Conference](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/assessments/the-peace-conference/): The capstone — run the semester's own credentials-and-overclaiming audit against a mycorrhizal phenomenon of your choosing, in writing, alone.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Opening lecture](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-01/): What a mycorrhiza actually is, the two associations that cover most of it, and why this course is suspicious of its own central metaphor from week one.
- [Trade agreements](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-02/): The basic carbon-for-nutrient exchange, and the biological-market evidence that it behaves like a rate rather than a fixed act of generosity.
- [Foreign aid](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-03/): The mother-tree carbon-transfer research, and the gap between what it measured and what its popular version claims.
- [Espionage](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-04/): Mycoheterotrophy — plants that take carbon from a shared fungal network without photosynthesising any back, and whether the network can tell.
- [Sanctions and chemical warfare](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-05/): Allelopathy and antifungal defence as chemical suppression of a rival, read against the negotiated exchanges of week 2.
- [Double agents](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-06/): The mutualism-parasitism continuum — the same fungal partner shifting role by host and by context — and the sanctions that keep it from settling one way permanently.
- [Border disputes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-07/): Fungal genet boundaries, contact-zone antagonism, and how far "territory" can stretch as a description of soil competition.
- [Refugee crises](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-08/): How fire, drought and logging reshape mycorrhizal communities, and what "reallocation" can and cannot be taken to mean.
- [Arms races](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-09/): The evolutionary logic connecting cheating (weeks 4 and 6) to sanctioning (weeks 2 and 6), and what "arms race" costs you when you say it out loud.
- [Cold war and détente](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-10/): The genetics of hyphal fusion and rejection — het loci, anastomosis, and the one week where the diplomatic label comes closest to literal.
- [Treaties broken](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-11/): Garlic mustard's disruption of native mycorrhizal mutualisms, and a second, less settled example — hub-tree loss after heavy logging.
- [The peace conference](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/lectures/week-12/): The closing lecture — an honest audit of the semester's own diplomatic framing, weighed against the credentials test set in week 1.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Dr. Marguerite Osei](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/people/marguerite-osei/): Convenor and lead mycologist. Sets the fortnightly reading, delivers every lecture, and holds the line on which claims in this course are load-bearing biology and which are just a metaphor working overtime.
- [Tobias Lindqvist](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/people/tobias-lindqvist/): Tutor. Trained in negotiation theory before moving into mycology, and runs every weekly Briefing on the premise that reading a trade agreement and reading a root tip are more alike than either discipline likes to admit.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Credentials](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/01-credentials/): The opening Briefing — what has to be true before anything under the soil counts as "a network," and the ground rules for keeping this course's central metaphor honest.
- [Trade agreements](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/02-trade-agreements/): Reading the plant-fungus carbon-for-nutrient exchange as a negotiated rate rather than a fixed act of generosity.
- [Foreign aid](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/03-foreign-aid/): Separating what the mother-tree carbon-sharing experiments measured from what the popular retelling added to it.
- [Espionage](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/04-espionage/): Plants that draw carbon from a mycorrhizal network without ever paying into it, and whether the network has any way to notice.
- [Sanctions and chemical warfare](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/05-sanctions/): Chemical suppression of rivals — allelopathy and antifungal defence — read against the negotiated exchanges of week 2.
- [Double agents](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/06-double-agents/): The Field Dispatch Briefing — the same fungal partner as mutualist to one host and exploiter of another, and the mechanisms that keep this in check.
- [Border disputes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/07-border-disputes/): Contested soil between fungal individuals, and the recognition systems that decide where one genet's growth stops and another's begins.
- [Refugee crises](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/08-refugee-crises/): Disturbance, displacement and resource reallocation in mycorrhizal communities after fire, drought or logging.
- [Arms races](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/09-arms-races/): Whether the sanctioning and cheating-detection mechanisms from weeks 2–6 can honestly be called an arms race on the evidence a semester can show.
- [Cold war and détente](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/10-cold-war-and-detente/): Hyphal fusion between compatible fungal individuals against rejection between incompatible ones — the closest this course's vocabulary gets to literal.
- [Treaties broken](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/11-treaties-broken/): The garlic mustard case — an invasive plant degrading a native mycorrhizal mutualism as a side effect of establishing itself.
- [The peace conference](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-cxin16215-netizen/sessions/12-peace-conference/): The closing Briefing — auditing every week's diplomatic label against the credentials test set in week 1, before the capstone is due.