2023 Fall
PSYCH C162 001 - LEC 001
Human Happiness
Dacher Keltner
Class #:30928
Units: 3
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Psychology
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
8
Enrolled: 367
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 375
Waitlist Max: 0
Open Reserved Seats:0
Also offered as:
LS C160V
Hours & Workload
2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.
Final Exam
THU, DECEMBER 14TH
11:30 am - 02:30 pm
Haas Faculty Wing F295
Hearst Mining 390
Cory 277
Stanley 106
Wheeler 200
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Course Catalog Description
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of happiness. The first part of the course will be devoted to the different treatments of happiness in the world's philosophical traditions, focusing up close on conceptions or the good life in classical Greek and Judeo-Christian thought, the great traditions in East Asian thought (Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism), and ideas about happiness that emerged more recently in the age of Enlightenment. With these different perspectives as a framework, the course will then turn to treatments of happiness in the behavioral sciences, evolutionary scholarship, and neuroscience. Special emphasis will be given to understanding how happiness arises in experiences of the moral emotions, including gratitude, compassion, reverence and awe, as well as aesthetic emotions like humor and beauty.
Class Notes
25% of seats are released at the beginning of Phase 1, and 25% more will be released on 4/28. All seats are reserved for Psych majors. There is no waitlist. Additional seats may be added to impacted classes.
More seats will be released during Phase 2, and the Psych Major enrollment rest.. show more
More seats will be released during Phase 2, and the Psych Major enrollment rest.. show more
25% of seats are released at the beginning of Phase 1, and 25% more will be released on 4/28. All seats are reserved for Psych majors. There is no waitlist. Additional seats may be added to impacted classes.
More seats will be released during Phase 2, and the Psych Major enrollment restriction will be removed. A small waitlist will be added.
Class is synchronous. No time conflict enrollment allowed.
Psych Enrollment Policy and Guidelines: https://tinyurl.com/2jrt2pkz show less
More seats will be released during Phase 2, and the Psych Major enrollment restriction will be removed. A small waitlist will be added.
Class is synchronous. No time conflict enrollment allowed.
Psych Enrollment Policy and Guidelines: https://tinyurl.com/2jrt2pkz show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Philosophy & Values, L&S Breadth
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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