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Course
Computational Manners
A nontraditional systems course where students study manners, protocol, awkward interactions, and group behavior as coordination problems.
This course
- Students use self-paced work to explore manners, protocol, queues, defaults, scheduling, risk, and social coordination
- Weekly live online events build on that work with scenarios, discussion, activities, and teacher-led group analysis
- Examples can include court protocol, household batching, legal or medical intake, military or industrial systems, and everyday awkward conversations
- Students ask which shared patterns help, which break down, and what happens when only some people follow them
What families should know
- This is not a traditional etiquette class and not a standard coding class either
- It uses computing ideas like queues, caching, heuristics, collision avoidance, cascading effects, and efficiency to understand human behavior
- Students also practice seeing why manners and self-control can make life easier for a group
- It pairs naturally with civics, software, history, or other systems-focused courses
Registration
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