Workshops
Six working sessions, each tied to a specific assessment milestone rather than to every lecture week — where you practise making, breaking and pressure-testing an interpretation by hand before you're marked on one.
A lecture argues a week's case; a workshop is where you do something with it — start the diary, workshop a method, review a peer's draft, build or playtest a small oracle, or plan the final project. Each one names the assessment it feeds and what to bring.
Starting the Pattern Diary
Field session · Week 02 · 2 August 2027
Setting up the habit the whole semester leans on — noticing a pattern in your own life and writing it down before you know what, if anything, it means.
Autopsy method clinic
Field session · Week 04 · 16 August 2027
A working session on how to take a coincidence apart properly, before the Meaning Autopsy asks you to do it in writing, unsupervised.
Peer review: Meaning Autopsy drafts
Field session · Week 06 · 30 August 2027
Bringing a draft autopsy to be read by someone other than yourself, a week before it's due.
Oracle build clinic
Field session · Week 08 · 20 September 2027
Choosing what your own small oracle will do, and being honest on paper about how its mechanism actually works.
Playtesting oracles
Field session · Week 10 · 4 October 2027
Handing your in-progress oracle to a classmate and watching, in real time, whether a stranger reads it the way you intended.
Structuring "Was It a Sign?"
Field session · Week 12 · 18 October 2027
Turning one real, personally significant moment into a structured piece of writing, before the semester's final deadline arrives.