Course discusses phenomenological and hermeneutic concepts as the basis for a rigorous approach to interpersonal and intertemporal understanding. It uses examples from experimental phenomenology to demonstrate how the mind works and thus makes possible, or better yet constitutes the basis for, application of interpretation itself of discourse and action in the human sciences: history, communication, narrative (literature), psychology, and other disciplines. It also discusses the importance of temporality as the inter-exchange of past, present, and future that replaces a mere linear concept of time. Students will be introduced to the use of hermeneutic research conversation as the preferred method of data gathering, and of writing and reading as on-going interpretation, not mere textual description of thought process.