The most popular course at Harvard this semester teaches happiness.
Positive Psychology, a class whose content resembles that of self-help books but is grounded in serious psychological research, has enrolled 855 students, who learn about creating, as the course description puts it, "a fulfilling and flourishing life," courtesy of the booming new area of psychology that focuses on what makes people feel good rather than the pathologies that can make them feel miserable.
"Positive Psych may be the one class at Harvard that every student needs to take," said Nancy Cheng, a junior majoring in biology.
Source: The Boston Globe
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