# Course rhythm

2026-10-08 · https://fsgeek.ca/teaching/cpsc-416-winter-2025-term-2/course-rhythm/

## Weekly cadence

  * **Readings + quiz:** each reading set has a short quiz to verify engagement and build vocabulary.
  * **Check-in:** a completion-graded weekly activity that practices a skill needed for the capstone.
  * **Studio / participatory lecture:** in-class work that starts from a failure and develops a protocol or analysis.



## Lecture structure

Lectures are primarily instructor-led, with a consistent short in-class component that reinforces the course method:

  * start from a failure,
  * derive the guarantee/invariant,
  * connect it to a protocol mechanism, and
  * name the evidence that would falsify the claim.



## Instructional weeks

There are ~11 instructional weeks. Reading week is used for recovery/catch-up. The final week is used for low-risk activities (project reviews/demos) rather than introducing new core material.