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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.