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.
Resources & Policies#
Scope: what this course does and doesn’t ask of you#
This course studies etiquette violations analytically — as case studies of a norm, not as a checklist to perform on strangers. Nothing in this course asks you to actually harm, endanger, or deceive anyone about health or safety. Weeks 2 through 10 are observational: you watch and describe violations that are already happening around you, without staging them.
The one exception is the Live Practicum in Week 11, and it is deliberately narrow: a technique performed live, in a supervised Drop-in Session, in front of a cohort who signed up for exactly this and can see it coming. It does not extend to the street, the library, or anyone who hasn’t agreed to be part of the session. If you are ever unsure whether something you’re planning falls inside that scope, ask a convenor before you do it, not after.
Academic integrity#
Case studies must describe something you actually observed. A write-up that invents an observation, or copies another student’s, is treated as the same kind of integrity breach it would be in any other course — the fact that the subject matter is norm-violation doesn’t extend any latitude to the coursework itself. Use of AI tools to help structure or edit your writing is fine; using one to generate the observation you’re claiming to have made is not, and reads exactly like fabricating data.
Late work and extensions#
Ask before a deadline, not after. A short, specific email to the convenor before the due date is normally enough to arrange a few days’ extension; the same request the day after is a much harder conversation. Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 both lose 5% of the available mark per day late, capped at five days, after which they’re marked as submitted.
The Final Exam is the one assessment that can’t be extended informally, since it happens in a scheduled, supervised sitting — if you can’t make your slot, contact a convenor before the exam to arrange an alternative time rather than after you’ve missed it. The Live Practicum in Week 11 works the same way: it isn’t separately graded, but attendance in your assigned session is still required, so contact a convenor beforehand if you can’t make it.
Readings#
There is no set textbook. Each week’s lecture page links the one or two readings it actually draws on, rather than assigning a shared list up front — a norm doesn’t wait for the syllabus to notice it, so the reading changes as the norm being studied changes.
Referencing an observation#
Assignment 1 asks you to cite two things at once: a real, observed act, and the literature that helps explain it. For the observation itself, record what you watched with a timestamp, a location described precisely enough that a marker could stand in the same spot, and enough detail about who was involved that a second observer could tell whether they were watching the same event — see the Assignment 1 brief for the exact fields and for how much the literature side of the mark is worth.
Slides and recordings#
A lecture with a real deck links it from its own page (look for “Open the slides”). Drop-in Sessions aren’t recorded — the method depends on being in the room.
Getting help#
Bring week-to-week questions about a case study or the method to a Drop-in Session — that’s what supervision time is for. Email a convenor directly for anything about the course’s shape, your mark, or an extension; see each person’s profile for what they specifically handle and how quickly they reply.