INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE INQUIRY

CURRIC 723

Focuses on framing, generating, collecting, and analyzing data gathered from interviews and documents related to people's lives.

MEDSC-M 942

Narrative medicine, developing narrative competence, storytelling, and personal reflection. Using medical humanities for personal statement writing, interview preparation and professional identity formation.

COUNPSY/CURRIC/EDPOL/EDPSYCH/ELPA/RP&SE 719

Provides an overview of qualitative inquiry, examining assumptions, standards, and methods for generating and communicating interpretations. Methodological and theoretical works illustrate case study, ethnography, narrative, and action research. Does not include a field method component.

ENGL 508

Fiction writing.

MEDHIST 740

Narrative medicine is the practice of using stories to understand health and illness in the context of people's lives. Whether through fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, text or graphics, giving voice to the stories of patients and caregivers allows their experiences to be heard, made sense of, and valued. Learning to listen to others and to express one's own vulnerabilities are valuable tools for all health practitioners, but they are especially valuable in the context of public health. The scope of public health interventions encourages practitioners to think in terms of populations, but efforts to improve quality of life through prevention must ultimately be grounded in individual lives. Explore how narrative medicine techniques can enrich the practice of public health, both through the power of listening to stories to understand how individuals experience health and through the power of telling stories to mobilize communities.