Hermeneutic Phenomenology

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The seminar in Hermeneutic Phenomenology engages primary and secondary scholarship of authors in the phenomenological philosophical tradition. Students meet together with seminar leaders weekly after reading assigned textual material. The seminar is designed as a six-semester experience. Students provide a 1-page per chapter summary/reaction for materials read. At the conclusion of the class,students will use one philosopher as a lens for their interpretive work, submitting an essay for review at a regional or national conference. An interpretive or summary essay concludes the six-semester experience; students turn in a folder each year to the co-directors of the seminar, providing evidence of a scholarly essay addressing a communicatively rich content area topic explored from a phenomenological and/or existential phenomenological interpretive perspective.