Timetable
Every fixed point in the semester: when the lecture and the lab meet, where, the conventions the rooms run on, and every deadline between February and June.
A timetable usually gives you a room, a start time, and nothing else. It does not say whether the room booking is the teaching time, whether you may leave at the break, or which of the two doors is the one people use.
This is the version with the rest of it written down.
The course
| Code | SLOP1562, NT 101 on campus |
|---|---|
| Session | Semester 1, 2027 |
| Teaching | 23 February 2027 to 27 May 2027, twelve weeks with a fortnight's break in the middle |
| Room bookings | 3 hours reserved each week; working times below |
| Last deadline | 13 June 2027, 23:59 |
| Entry | Three references, no prior study, and no diagnosis |
The week
| What | When | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | Tuesday 14:05–15:55 | Theatre 1, Applied Interaction Building |
| Lab | Thursday 14:05–14:55 | Room 2.14, Applied Interaction Building |
| Field Journal | Sunday 23:59, weeks 2 to 12 | Wherever you are |
The rooms are booked Tuesday 14:00–16:00 and Thursday 14:00–15:00. Teaching starts five minutes into each booking and finishes at least five minutes before it ends. Those minutes belong to getting through the door.
Tuesday writes a part of the protocol down; you get two days to watch for it in the wild; Thursday tests the writing in the room; and you get three more days to catch it happening to you before the journal entry is due. Use what you find to revise the rule.
What a timetable doesn't usually say
- Teaching starts at 14:05. The five minutes after the room opens are written into the timetable; nobody has to infer them.
- The lecture break is 14:55–15:05. Every deck has a break slide with the resume time. The clock sets the break; a discussion running long does not move it.
- The core material ends around 15:40. The remaining time is contingency. Every deck ends with an open-ended question to discuss if there is time left. Discussion is optional and finishes by 15:55; no self-check depends on staying for it.
- Labs run 14:05–14:55. Each run sheet covers fifty minutes from the start of teaching. The last five minutes of the room booking are for leaving, not one more task.
- You can leave and come back. No explanation, no apology, no catching anyone's eye on the way out. Use the door at the back; the one by the lectern puts you in front of the room. Theatre 1's back row and both aisle ends are kept clear.
- Lectures are recorded and captioned, and go up by Wednesday morning. You don't have to ask for the recording, and you don't have to say why you want it.
- Labs are not recorded. Week 1's rule for observing people — write down words, not people — applies to the room you are sitting in as much as to the corridor outside it.
- Two labs leave the room. Weeks 1 and 2 start in Room 2.14 and go out into the building; the other ten stay put. Every lab also has a version you can do from the edge of the room, and you don't have to say why you're doing it.
- Nothing is expected before the first lecture. No reading, nothing to buy, nothing to have looked up. Each week's page says what to bring to that week.
- Nobody takes a roll. Attendance isn't marked, in either meeting. From week 9 the lab is where your Interoperation Report partner is, though, so a lab you'll miss is worth one message to them and your tutor beforehand — which is the week 8 specimen, used for real.
The semester
Every lecture is a Tuesday, every lab a Thursday, and every deadline 23:59 Canberra time.
The break
12 April 2027 to 25 April 2027: no lecture, no lab, no deadline. Week 7 hands you a runbook for overload and recovery on the Tuesday before it starts.
Public holidays
Four fall inside the teaching weeks: Canberra Day (Mon 8 Mar), Good Friday (Fri 26 Mar), Easter Monday (Mon 29 Mar) and ANZAC Day, observed (Mon 26 Apr). None of them is a Tuesday or a Thursday. That is why the course meets on a Tuesday and a Thursday.
One journal deadline, Sunday 28 March, is Easter Sunday. It stays where it is. The journal drops your lowest of eleven marks.
Deadlines
Four tasks. The Field Journal is turned in 11 times and the other three once each, every one of them at 23:59 Canberra time. What each task asks for, and how it's marked, is on the assessment page.
- Protocol Specification
- Field Journal
- Interoperation Report
- Personal Protocol Document or Neurotypical Interaction Field Experiment
The submission guide explains the hand-in process and whether uploads are available. Extension rules, including the separate rule for the Field Journal, are on thepolicies page.
Who to ask, and when
- Dr Wren Aldous-Kemp, convenor. Office hours Wednesday 14:00–15:00, no booking. Assessment, extensions, adjustments, and anything a tutor couldn't settle.
- Tamsin Oyelaran-Hart, tutor for the labs of weeks 1 to 7, and the journal.
- Jonah Paskett, tutor for the labs of weeks 8 to 12, the report partnerships, and the capstone.
Email subject line: [NT101] topic: one-line request. Replies within two working days. The last ten minutes of any lab is also a fine time to ask, and so is the ten-minute break in the lecture. Using the escalation path on the policies page is not rude.