PSYC 300 - The Pursuit of Happiness

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

Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. 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.