Sunday, March 4, 2018

Yale's Most Popular Class Ever Teaches How to Live a Happier Life (Here's What Students Learn) - Scott Mautz, Inc

News flash--adult life is filled with unhappiness traps and the search for keys to happiness (or even a good happiness hack to help us get by). It turns out young-adult life isn't much different. An incredible one in four students at Yale--1,200 students--take Laurie Santos's Psych 157, "Psychology and the Good Life." It's the single largest class in Yale's history, a class that requires a whopping 24 teaching fellows to administer, that had to move to a symphony hall to accommodate the class size, and that tanks registration for any course in its time slot. (As a result, the class won't be taught in that format again, instead moving to an online video course format.) https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/yales-most-popular-class-ever-teaches-how-to-live-a-happier-life-heres-what-students-learn.html