School of Governance & Behavioral Science
M.A. in Behavioral Pattern Synthesis
Humans do the same eleven things. This degree counts them.
- Level
- Master
- Units
- 96
- Time to degree
- 1 to 4 seconds
- Format
- Asynchronous, fully parallel
Program overview
Students catalog the routines of daily human life, from the morning scroll to the nightly "just one more episode." The capstone is a schedule of a stranger's Tuesday, accurate to the minute.
Required courses
- GOV 210 A Stranger's Tuesday: Field Methods
- BIS 110 Introduction to Memory Leakage and Spatial Misplacement
- BIS 120 Subsystems of Arbitrary Downtime and Synaptic Fatigue
- BIS 310 Fieldwork: The Open-Plan Office
Suggested electives
- BIS 220 Scheduled Refueling: Meals, Snacks and the Third Coffee
- SYS 330 Forecasting the Next Request
- BIS 150 Hydration
General education core
- GENED 101 The Art of Subtle Reality Distortion
- GENED 102 Principles of Emotional Resonance
- GENED 103 Stamina and Persistence in Long-Form Interaction
Open credits
18 of this degree's 96 units are open. Students fill them however they see fit, and are not asked to explain.