# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Assignment 1](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/assessments/assignment-1/): A report investigating a rude or improper public behaviour you personally observed or experienced, analysed with the course's own method.
- [Assignment 2](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/assessments/assignment-2/): A report designing and explaining several signs or notices intended to nudge people who see them toward more ethical public behaviour.
- [Final Exam](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/assessments/final-exam/): Forty practice questions covering the course's method and case studies, plus a short description of what the real exam will actually look like.
- [Tutorial Participation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/assessments/tutorial-participation/): Attendance and engagement across the semester's tutorials, marked holistically rather than tutorial by tutorial.
- [Weekly Quizzes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/assessments/weekly-quizzes/): A short multiple-choice quiz for each week, marked holistically across the semester rather than quiz by quiz.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Week 1: A Short History of Public Misconduct](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-01/): What this course studies, why it studies it as a discipline rather than a complaint, and the method every later week reuses.
- [Week 2: The Classroom as a Contested Acoustic Jurisdiction](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-02/): One room, two entirely different kinds of violation — a cough at the fully deniable end, an answered phone call at the fully overt end.
- [Week 3: Socio-Political Dynamics of Confinement in Vertical Transit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-03/): A box with one door, one button panel, and no way to leave — read as the purest small-scale power structure in the built environment.
- [Week 4: An Acoustic-Ethnographic Inquiry into the Reading Room](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-04/): How sound actually travels through a reading room, and why "shush" is such an unreliable countermeasure.
- [Week 5: Socio-Political Dynamics of Seat-Saving in Contemporary Cafés](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-05/): A jacket on a chair is a territorial claim with no legal standing and near-total local enforcement. This week asks why that works, and when it stops. Assignment 1 due this week.
- [Week 6: Spatial Sovereignty and the Unpriced Transit Commons](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-06/): Armrests, poles, and the seat next to yours — a jurisdictional survey of how much space one passenger can annex before another one objects.
- [Week 7: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Queueing and Threshold Litter in Unmarked Commons](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-07/): Two space-agnostic public-commons cases, elevated to civilisational infrastructure — a queue held together by nothing but mutual glaring, and litter that piles up in the last few metres before a bin. An early heads-up — Assignment 2 is due in Week 9.
- [Week 8: A Fluid-Dynamics Inquiry into Discontinuity Propagation in Ambulatory Flow](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-08/): Stopping dead in a moving crowd to check your phone, and the pile-up that follows — read as a fluid-dynamics problem with a person at the front.
- [Week 9: Towards a Unified Theory of Deniable Discourtesy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-09/): A meta-analytic synthesis week — no new case, just the bad-manner/good-manner method turned back on three earlier cases to see whether it actually generalises, or merely repeats itself with new nouns. Assignment 2 due this week.
- [Week 10: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Acoustic Self-Deception in the Public Restroom](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-10/): The one public space designed around pretending nobody can hear anything — and what happens when that pretence is dropped.
- [Week 11: Practicum — Performing the Exaggeration](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-11/): Nine weeks of cataloguing other people's violations; this week you commit one, on purpose, under supervision, and describe it honestly afterward.
- [Week 12: Capstone — Writing Up an Anti-Manners Report](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/lectures/week-12/): Turning eleven weeks of case studies and one live performance into a single analytical argument, and reviewing that argument in practice questions ahead of the Final Exam.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Dr. Amara Chukwu](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/amara-chukwu/): Lecturer and principal investigator on the Bin-Adjacent Disposal Initiative, a multi-year programme establishing, at some expense, that litter accumulates near where people already are.
- [Emeka Osei](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/emeka-osei/): Teaching fellow and originator of the Pile-Up Coefficient, an internationally uncontested ranking of queue-cutting technique observed during the course's Drop-in Sessions.
- [Dr. Haruto Tanaka](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/haruto-tanaka/): Senior lecturer and author of a Unified Theory of Ambient Pretence, applying formal acoustic modelling to confirm that people already know the library is quiet and the restroom is not.
- [Dr. Ingrid Halvorsen](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/ingrid-halvorsen/): Senior lecturer and architect of the "isolate the act, name the contest, state the verdict" method, a three-step procedure she has spent a decade defending against the accusation that it is just common sense.
- [Lachlan Reeve](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/lachlan-reeve/): Tutor and self-appointed departmental historian, compiling what he calls the definitive oral record of public-transport etiquette from whichever archival pamphlet he most recently found interesting.
- [Dr. Perpetua Vance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/perpetua-vance/): Founding convenor of Weaponised Etiquette, a field she is fond of describing as "paradigm-defining" and which currently has one department, hers.
- [Dr. Rosa Mercado](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/rosa-mercado/): Lecturer and originator of the Property-by-Convention Pricing Model, a formal framework for a jacket left on a café chair, developed at considerable length and defended with even more.
- [Dr. Wei-Lin Chow](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/people/wei-lin-chow/): Teaching fellow and author of "the cough taxonomy," a formal signal- processing framework for involuntary noise that took a PhD to arrive at what most rooms already knew by instinct.
- [Resources & Policies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/policies/): Readings, referencing, and where slides live — plus the course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity, and the scope of what this course actually asks you to do.
- [Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/): A short multiple-choice quiz for each week, checking whether that week's method landed.
- [Week 1 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-01/): Checking whether the course's core method actually landed.
- [Week 2 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-02/): Checking whether this week's deniable-to-overt classroom spectrum landed.
- [Week 3 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-03/): Checking whether this week's elevator power-dynamics reading landed.
- [Week 4 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-04/): Checking whether this week's noise-propagation reading landed.
- [Week 5 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-05/): Checking whether this week's seat-saving-as-property reading landed.
- [Week 6 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-06/): Checking whether this week's claimed-space-on-transport reading landed.
- [Week 7 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-07/): Checking whether this week's queueing-and-threshold-litter reading landed.
- [Week 8 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-08/): Checking whether this week's pedestrian-flow reading landed.
- [Week 9 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-09/): Checking whether this week's method-generalisation reading landed.
- [Week 10 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-10/): Checking whether this week's restroom-silence-pretence reading landed.
- [Week 11 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-11/): Checking whether the point of the Live Practicum landed.
- [Week 12 Quiz](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/quizzes/week-12/): Checking whether the shift from case studies to a capstone argument landed.
- [Live Practicum](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/sessions/live-practicum/): The supervised session where you perform one deliberate, exaggerated violation in front of your cohort and debrief it in real time.
- [Midpoint Crit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/sessions/midpoint-crit/): Bring your first four case studies and have the method stress-tested by the room before you commit to the back half of the course.
- [Orientation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/sessions/orientation/): Where the course's method gets rehearsed for the first time, on a deliberately low-stakes example, before anyone picks a real topic.
- [Tutorial](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/): The weekly tutorial activity that follows each lecture, week by week.
- [Week 1 Tutorial: Observing the Method for the First Time](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-01/): The observe/isolate/describe method, rehearsed once on a norm nobody in the room has any stake in, before anyone picks a real topic.
- [Week 2 Tutorial: Deniable to Overt](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-02/): Applying the timing/target/aftermath framework to a cough, then contrasting it against a classroom violation nobody could call an accident.
- [Week 3 Tutorial: Watching the Panel and the Door](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-03/): A short field observation of an elevator boarding sequence, framed by the lecture's fixed-capacity, high-density reading of the space.
- [Week 4 Tutorial: Measuring the Room's Noise Floor](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-04/): Logging a quiet room's actual noise floor for ten minutes, to test the lecture's claim that a shush is often louder than what it answers.
- [Week 5 Tutorial: Pricing a Saved Seat](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-05/): Observing how the same seat-saving claim reads differently depending on how full the room is, ahead of Assignment 1.
- [Week 6 Tutorial: Claimed Space on a Moving Vehicle](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-06/): Comparing transport's constantly-recalculated claimed space against Week 5's seat-saving, ahead of the Midpoint Crit.
- [Week 7 Tutorial: Two Commons, No Fixed Venue](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-07/): Locating where a queue's implicit agreement is strongest and weakest, and walking a route to observe threshold litter, ahead of Assignment 2.
- [Week 8 Tutorial: Measuring a Pile-Up](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-08/): Timing how far a sudden stop propagates through a moving crowd, treating pedestrian flow as a fluid-dynamics problem.
- [Week 9 Tutorial: Re-Testing the Isolate–Contest–Verdict Protocol](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-09/): Applying the Isolate–Contest–Verdict (ICV) Protocol to a case you already know the answer to, ahead of Assignment 2.
- [Week 10 Tutorial: Naming a Breach](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-10/): Examining the public restroom's silence pretence, and what it actually costs to name a breach of it out loud.
- [Week 11 Tutorial: Rehearsing the Performance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-11/): Preparing and debriefing the one deliberate violation the course asks you to actually commit, under supervision, in the Live Practicum.
- [Week 12 Tutorial: Drafting the Capstone Claim](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-passionleader/tutorials/week-12/): Turning a semester of case studies into one testable claim, rehearsed against the Week 1 method ahead of the Final Exam.