Advanced Studies in Lived Experience Scholarship

3 ch (3C) · Undergraduate

A research and writing course that focuses on the incorporation of autobiographical and 3rd person lived experiences into scholarly research. The course emphasizes reflexive writing skills, including the intertextuality of personal experiences, life course events and the critical lens students apply when doing field research, publishing peer-reviewed articles, and mobilizing information for policy adoption. The course will help students understand how to see in a deep and meaningful way, how the sociological imaginations of those we study impact the social issues they face. The course does this by using written life course exercises to sensitize the student to the influence of their own biographies, social contexts and vantage points.