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The Curriculum

Systems, Power, and Resilience

Pattern Recognition Across Institutional and Ecological Domains

A liberal arts curriculum built in public. Jump in anywhere. Three rings of depth, five thematic mosaics, four paths in. No fixed sequence, no locked gates, no commitment required. Pick whatever module pulls you, work it at your own pace, and follow the thread wherever it leads. Open source. Fork it. Make it yours.

5
Year Arc*
11
Courses Being Built
~55
Planned Total
5
Mosaics
3
Study Abroadish
Mobocoin →

* It's my fantasy; it can be five years. You can start with one module this weekend.

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The Mechanic

How BoopU Works

Three rings of depth. Five thematic mosaics. Four ways in. Build vertically, build horizontally, or both.

The Rings

Depth, not gates.

Ring 0 builds the instrument — attention, cognition, argument. Ring 1 opens the field. Ring 2 goes architectural. Nothing is locked. The rings describe context, not permission.

The Mosaics

Theme cuts across depth.

Five thematic clusters — Power, Systems, Narrative, Perception, Predicament — run across all rings. Complete a full mosaic and unlock a physical artifact. The blanket pattern. Something real.

The Paths

Four ways to activate.

Start with Power. Start with Systems. Start with Story. Start with Predicament. Each path activates a mosaic sequence. Deviate freely. These are on-ramps, not itineraries.

The Five Mosaics

Build Horizontally

Mosaics are thematic clusters that cut across rings. Complete a full mosaic and unlock a physical artifact — the actual pattern for your blanket square, or equivalent.

🔴
Power
POLS-101 · AMST-210
ATTN-100 · PHIL-110
Activates via: Start with Power
🔵
Systems
APMA-115 · ERTH-201
COGN-120
Activates via: Start with Systems
🟡
Narrative
SB-1970 · SB-1971
SB-1972 · AMST-210
Activates via: Start with Story
🟢
Perception
VIS-101 · ATTN-100
COGN-120 · PHIL-110
Activates via: Start with Story
Predicament
ERTH-201 · SB-1972
APMA-115 · AMST-210
Activates via: Start with Predicament

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Four Ways In

Suggested Paths

Not required. Not exhaustive. Four entry sequences that activate mosaic clusters. Pick one to start — then deviate freely.

Path 01
Start with Power
Activates Mosaic 🔴 Power
0
ATTN-100
3
IMMERSION
🇩🇪 Berlin — Memory Culture
4
SEN
Comparative Democratic Systems
Path 02
Start with Systems
Activates Mosaics 🔵 Systems + ⚫ Predicament
3
IMMERSION
🇨🇷 Costa Rica — Ecological Stability
4
SEN
Advanced Ecological Systems & Resilience
Path 03
Start with Story
Activates Mosaics 🟡 Narrative + 🟢 Perception
0
ATTN-100
3
IMMERSION
🇨🇦 Montréal — Bilingual Democracy
4
WRT
Narrative Nonfiction Workshop
Path 04
Start with Predicament
Activates Mosaic ⚫ Predicament
1
3
IMMERSION
🇸🇪 Stockholm — Ecological Governance
4
SEN
Advanced Ecological Systems & Resilience

The Full Map

11 Being Built. ~55 Planned. Your Sequence.

Nothing is locked. Rings describe context and depth, not order. Use the paths above as on-ramps, or start anywhere that pulls you. Courses marked Forming are in active development. Courses marked Planned exist as outlines.

Ring 0: The Instrument
Ring 1: The Field
Ring 2: The Architecture
Ring 3: Immersion
Ring 4: Synthesis
0
The Instrument
Build the thing you think with before you think with it. Attention, cognition, argument. These three run underneath everything else.
ATTN-100Forming

1
The Field
Pick up cold. No prerequisites enforced. High readability. Any of these is a valid first move — though Ring 0 will sharpen what you find here.
SB-1972Forming

2
The Architecture
Denser. More demanding. Rewards having done Ring 0 or Ring 1 work first — but still self-contained. This is where the structural arguments live.
AMST-210Forming
ERTH-201Forming
HISTForming
History of Authoritarianism
BIOLForming
Ecology & Ecosystems
INFOForming
Information Literacy in the Digital Age
ECONForming
Energy, Economics & Overshoot
PSYCForming
Social Psychology
STATForming
Statistical Thinking & Data Literacy
LAWForming
Constitutional Law & Federalism
ENVSForming
Environmental History
VISForming
Typography & Visual Communication
VISForming
Information Design Fundamentals

3
Immersion
Field, travel, language. You can't Google your way through these. Contextual, not sequential.

Summers

☀️
Summer 1: Community Resilience
10-week placement. Local food systems and mutual aid.
Detroit (urban agriculture) · Appalachia (economic transition)
☀️
Summer 2: Pacific Northwest
Wilderness and ecological immersion. Environmental journalism or conservation placement.
Point Reyes · Olympic Peninsula · BC coast
☀️
Summer 3: Eastern Europe (Optional)
Havel. Prague Spring. What it looks like when people who know what's coming try to say so.
Poland · Czech Republic · Hungary
☀️
Summer 4: TBD
Something weird and useful. To be determined.

Study Abroadish

🇸🇪
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm University or KTH
Nordic model · social democracy · high-trust societies
Forming
🇩🇪
Berlin, Germany
Freie Universität or Humboldt
Memory culture · Never Forget · institutional accountability
Forming
🇨🇦
Montréal, Canada
McGill or Université de Montréal
Bilingual democracy · Quebec sovereignty · different federalism
Forming
🇨🇷
Costa Rica
Universidad de Costa Rica
Spanish immersion · no standing army since 1948 · democratic stability
Forming

4
Synthesis
Integration territory. Not locked, but you'll want context from the other rings. This is where the threads converge.
POLSPlanned
Comparative Democratic Systems
ENVSPlanned
Advanced Ecological Systems & Resilience
HISTPlanned
Memory, Trauma, and Collective Identity
COMMPlanned
Crisis Communication
PHILPlanned
Philosophy of Science & Public Understanding
FILMPlanned
Documentary & Ethnographic Methods
WRTPlanned
Narrative Nonfiction Workshop
VISPlanned
Advanced Information Design
CAPPlanned
Senior Capstone: Pattern Recognition for Resilience

Capstone: Pattern Recognition for Resilience

Don't Get Played: A Multi-Platform Framework · Choose 3 of 5 deliverables

A multi-platform educational framework built from five years of coursework, four countries, three languages, and one central question: what does it mean to see clearly in a world optimized for blindness?

Professional Education Modules
Manipulation recognition. Pattern detection. Source evaluation. For people who need it now.
Documentary Series: Four Democracies
Stockholm · Berlin · Montréal · Costa Rica. What each place taught about why democracies hold or fail.
Interactive Web Platform
Source evaluation toolkit. Pattern recognition training. Case studies database.
Long-Form Written Work
Academic thesis on institutional resilience OR narrative nonfiction book proposal.
Community Workshop Series
Pilot materials tested with real audiences. The curriculum leaves the building.
Open source. Fork it. Adapt it. Make it yours.
— BoopUniversity, est. 2026

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