PSYC 300 - The Pursuit of Happiness

FDR: SS3
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years

Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Students examine and discuss the meaning and significance of happiness, explore pathways and barriers to happiness from scientific, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives, and engage in a thoughtful and proactive process of self-examination with regard to personal ideals, goals, and mechanisms of happiness. Students become immersed in experiential learning opportunities to sample potential pathways to well-being and contribute to the greater good through community service. Murdock.