You Can Now Study Yale’s Famous “Happiness Class” For Free
Rory Gilmore goals.
Yale University is now offering one of their most popular courses, “Psychology and the Good Life” online. And you can do it for free.
We all know Yale, right? The fancy college that Rory chooses over Harvard. I mean, it’s also a world-class university that consistently ranks as one of the top 20 worldwide. (But you 100 per cent know it from Gilmore Girls, don’t lie.)
Now you can study one of their real-life courses! And not just a regular course — their most popular course.
Learn How To Live A Happy Life
With 1182 undergraduates already enrolled in the IRL version of the course, Psychology and the Good Life — nicknamed “The Happiness Class” — is Yale’s most popular course. Ever.
The professor teaching it, Laurie Santos, reckons this is because undergraduate students are under a lot of pressure from their studies, and it’s causing their mental health to suffer. She said, “Students want to change, to be happier themselves, and to change the culture here on campus.”
Now, so more people can benefit from this magic course, she’s condensed it into a six week course called “The Science of Wellbeing” and made it available on Coursera. According to the website, “The purpose of the course is to not only learn what psychological research says about what makes us happy but also to put those strategies into practice.”
The syllabus includes classes on “Misconceptions About Happiness”, “Stuff That Really Makes Us Happy” and “Putting Strategies Into Practice”. It’s spread over six weeks but you can complete it in your own time. It’s entirely free but if you want a certificate at the end (a certificate from Yale!), you have to fork out some cash.
You can enroll here.
You’re basically Rory now. Go you!
(Lead image: Gilmore Girls/Warner Bros)