Lecture
Happiness & The Good Life
Course and term details
- Sequence
- 03A
- Part of term
- 1
- Term
- Fall 2026
- Delivery
- Traditional
- Delivery code
- TR
- Linked section
- No
- Open section
- Yes
Fall 2026
STEP1000 CRN 13130Happiness & The Good Life
LectureMainGernant, Allison AMon Wed Fri 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
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Schedule
Mon, Wed, Fri
11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
College of Business 9
08/31/2026 – 12/11/2026
Meeting type
Class · LEC
Faculty
Gernant, Allison APrimary
agernant@uwyo.edu
Seats
2
open of 6 seats
Enrollment and waitlist
- Enrollment
- 4
- Maximum enrollment
- 6
- Seats available
- 2
- Wait capacity
- 0
- Wait count
- 0
- Wait seats available
- 0
Course description
Have you ever been curious about the cultures that underlie your passions? In this class, we will study the world around you and the cultures that make up our play, work, relationships, and sense of self. Whatever your passions are - stories, natural environment, activism, food, film, or history - you can find a place for it in Culture & Community. The course will begin with an exploration of pressing topics, then transition into researching contemporary issues and problems-largely be determined by student interest. Our course will culminate with individual multi-modal research projects where you put your cultural literacy and research skills to the test.
Credits
3
3
All credit fields
- Credit range
- 3
Section information
**Please note: This class has ENGL 1010-33A (MWF, 12:00-12:50) as a co-requisite.** Brand new campus culture, brand new communities, brand new life. With so much new in your life, why stick to old habits? Recent research in positive psychology provides practical ideas that can impact our wellbeing. In our class, we’ll study up-to-date research and then apply it to our own lives by “rewiring” our small habits. We will complicate easy solutions about happiness by investigating “toxic positivity” and bittersweet states of mind. We’ll dive in pressing topics like cultural measures of happiness, physiological factors of wellbeing, and situational supports from fields like psychology, sociology, mindfulness, and environmental studies. This class will culminate in multi-modal research projects. If we choose to take insights to heart from the class – we stand to change our culture in big ways.
Attributes
1
U5H · USP15-H Human Culture
Full attribute list
- U5H
USP15-H Human Culture
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