PSY 444 Narrative Psychology:
Class Schedule Spring 2000M-W-F 1:30 - 2:20 PM Reilly Hall 108
Classes and Assignments: Revision #2 1/21/00
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1 Mo Jan 10 Introduction: Hearing the Narrative
2 We Jan 12 '' in Our Culture and Lives
3 Fr Jan 14 Gardner's The Mind's New Science (1985)
Chs. 2-3 (pp. 10-45)
Mo Jan 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance -- No class
Bruner's Acts of Meaning (1990)
4 We Jan 19 Chapter 1 The Proper Study of Man (pp. 1-32)
5 Fr Jan 21 Chapter 1 cont'd.
6 Mo Jan 24 Chapter 2 Folk Psychology as An Instrument
of Culture (pp. 33-65)
7 We Jan 26 Chapter 2 cont'd.
8 Fr Jan 28 Choosing a Seminar Topic * Objectives & Process
9 Mo Jan 31 Chapter 3 Entry into Meaning (pp. 67-97)
10 We Feb 02 Chapter 3 cont'd.
11 Fr Feb 04 Discussion
Introduction to Research Methods in Narrative Psychology
12 Mo Feb 07 The Qualitative vs. Quantitative Debate
13 We Feb 09 Riessman's Narrative Analysis (1993)
Introduction & Ch. 1 (pp. 1-24)14 Fr Feb 11 Ch. 2 Practical Models (pp. 25-53)
15 Mo Feb 14 Ch. 3 Doing Narrative Analysis & Conclusion (pp. 54-70)
15 We Feb 16 Discussion: Designing a Narrative Research Study
Mid-Term Examination distributed (due on Wednesday, Feb 23)
**Topic #1: Narrative and Self-Identity
16 Fr Feb 18 Bruner's Ch. 4 Autobiography & Self (pp. 99-138)
17 Mo Feb 21 Long Weekend (Feb 12-15) No Class
18 We Feb 23 Neisser (1994)
19 Fr Feb 25 McAdams (1997) Stories We Live By
Intro & Chs. 1-220 Mo Feb 28 Intro & Chs. 1-2 cont'd.
21 We Mar 01 In Class Work Group #1
22 Fr Mar 03 In Class Work Group #2
23 Mo Mar 06 McAdams (1997) Chs. 3-4
24 We Mar 08 McAdams (1997) Chs. 3-4 cont'd
25 Fr Mar 10 McAdams (1997) Chs. 5-6
**Topic #2: Narrative Critiques of Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis
26 Mo Mar 13 Omer (1996); Polkinghorne (1988) pp. 178-183
27 We Mar 15 Neimeyer (1995)
28 Fr Mar 17 Discussion
Spring Break March 20-24
Student Seminar Presentations
29 Mo Mar 27
30 We Mar 29
31 Fr Mar 31
32 Mo Apr 03
33 We Apr 05
34 Fr Apr 07
35 Mo Apr 10
36 We Apr 12
37 Fr Apr 14
38 Mo Apr 17
39 We Apr 19
Easter Break April 20-24 (Thurday-Monday)
40 We Apr 26
41 Fr Apr 28
42 Mo May 01
Fr May 05 Written Seminar Presentation due by 5 PM
REFERENCES
Bruner, J. S. (1990). Acts of meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.
Gardner, H. (1985). The mind's new science: A history of the cognitive revolution. New York: Basic Books.
McAdams, D. (1997). The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York: Guilford.
Neimeyer, R. A. (1995). Client-generated narratives in psychotherapy. In R. A. Neimeyer & M. J. Mahoney (Eds.), Constructivism in psychotherapy (pp. 231-246). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Neisser, U. (1994). Self-narratives: True and false: In U. Neisser & R. Fivush (Eds.), The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative (pp. 1-18). New York: Cambridge U. Press.
Omer, H. (1996). Three styles of constructive therapy. In M. F. Hoyt (Ed.), Constructive therapies. Volume 2 (pp. 319-333). New York: Guilford Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988). Narrative knowing and the human sciences. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Riessman, C. K. (1993). Narrative analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.