Social Sequence Analysis and Applications in Life Course Research

Instructor: Wenxuan Huang, PhD

Sequence analysis has been widely applied in life course research to understand the temporal pattern of life events (e.g., employment, marriage, and fertility) by scrutinizing timing, duration, and order. As a holistic approach, sequence analysis “brings course back to the life course research.” This short course will provide an introduction of this method and its typical applications to examine life course phenomena. This short course will cover the topics:

• Conceptual foundation of life course research
• Basic concepts of sequence analysis
• Brief introduction to R package “TraMineR”
• Describing and visualizing sequence data
• Identifying typical life course patterns

Date: Friday, April 7

Time: 12:00-1:00 PM

Location: 3505 N Charles St.

Zoom:  https://zoom.us/j/6019060976

Contact [email protected] for course slides.