Sessions
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each session, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
Tutorial 1: bring nothing, bullshit anyway
Week 1's tutorial — a low-stakes run at the live demonstration from lecture, before anything you say here is worth a mark
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Tutorial 2: first fortnightly checkpoint
Week 2's tutorial — the first graded fortnightly checkpoint, built on the abstraction lecture from the same week
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Tutorial 3: abstraction clinic
Week 3's tutorial — an ungraded clinic working through the live abstraction demo from lecture
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Tutorial 4: tools checkpoint
Week 4's tutorial — the second graded checkpoint, built on that week's tour of last-minute tools and resources
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Tutorial 5: resource clinic
Week 5's tutorial — an ungraded clinic running the live resource demonstration from lecture against an actual clock
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Tutorial 6: midsem checkpoint
Week 6's tutorial — the third graded checkpoint, doubling as the last rehearsal before the midsem oral
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Tutorial 7: satire clinic
Week 7's tutorial — an ungraded clinic picking targets for the satire work introduced in lecture
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Tutorial 8: satire checkpoint
Week 8's tutorial — the fourth graded checkpoint, delivering the satire target picked in week 7
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Tutorial 9: fake-deep clinic
Week 9's tutorial — an ungraded clinic testing the fake-deep grammar from lecture against real questions
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Tutorial 10: philosophy checkpoint
Week 10's tutorial — the fifth graded checkpoint, pairing a fake-deep paragraph against a real argument as in lecture
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Tutorial 11: genuine attempt clinic
Week 11's tutorial — an ungraded clinic supporting the genuine attempt at the assignment set in lecture
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Tutorial 12: final checkpoint
Week 12's tutorial — the sixth and last graded checkpoint, a dry run of the genuine attempt ahead of the final oral
Week 12 · 10 May 2027