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Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.

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Dr. Perpetua Vance

Convenor

Founding convenor of Weaponised Etiquette, a field she is fond of describing as "paradigm-defining" and which currently has one department, hers.

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Emeka Osei

Tutor

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.

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Lachlan Reeve

Tutor

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.

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Dr. 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.

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Dr. 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.

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Dr. 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.

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Dr. 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.

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Dr. 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.