ASSOCIATED PRESS
MISSOULA – The
University of Montana has announced a new course entitled “The Art
and Science of Happiness” joining other universities in adding the emotion to
the curriculum.
“The
Missoulian” reported Nov. 27 that psychologists John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan
are expected to teach this spring about the traits and habits that enable
people to flourish.
University
professors say the course aims to make the research applicable to students’
lives by using contemporary approaches from mindfulness to emotion-monitoring
phone applications.
Professors
say the students will be graded on knowledge-based assessments not on their
state of being in the course.
Officials
say 28 students have registered as of Nov. 25. A Harvard University course on
the topic drew 900 students in 2006 and a similar course at Yale drew 1,200
students in 2018.
