The course recognizes the importance of storytelling, conversation, forms of everyday oral and written communication, narrative text, and artistic expression in the study of human lives. It includes the study of a family of related research methods, from autobiography to ethnomethodology, having in common a focus on personal stories as textual data. Narrative research is grounded in hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethnography, and literary analysis and seeks to understand the lived experience of human beings and how people make meaning of their experience. A research proposal, IRB review, execution of a pilot research study, and written research report is required for completion. (Ph.D. program only) 3 credit(s)

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