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Yale’s “Science of Well-Being” Online Course Is Available For Free

Many of us are looking for ways to better and improve ourselves, and so much the better if we can do it from the safety and comfort from our own homes. And not only is Yale offering a few courses online for free, they’re offering one in particular that’s so, so applicable to life as we currently know it.

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Their “The Science fo Well-Being” course (offered through Coursera), helps us answer questions like, “why are we so bad at predicting what will make us happy” and “how can we figure out what actually does the trick?”

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Basically, we all know that money and career success doesn’t necessarily make people happier – but we also don’t exactly know what does.

The 10-week course that promises to help you figure it out consists of about 2-3 hours of reading and videos per week, and allows you to work at your own pace, in case you want to cram a bunch of it into a weekend.

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Psychology professor Laurie Santos teachers the class, and leads students through research on how we’re wired to think about our own well-being, and to help you learn how to implement that knowledge to increase happiness in your life.

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If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the vague advice to “be happier,” this task-oriented course that’s geared toward building better habits at home might be exactly what you’ve been looking for – and former students, who have rated the class a 4.9 out of 5 stars (3731 of them) all but agree that it works.

Sounds like a pretty productive way to spend 20 hours of your life if you ask me!

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Anyone Can Take Yale’s Incredibly Popular “Happiness Course” Online

One of the great things about the digital age we live in is how accessible things are: things that were once completely out of reach are now right at our fingertips. Like taking a popular course at Yale University online.

Yale’s “Psychology and the Good Life” course is now available as a free online course to anyone with an Internet connection. The class debuted just this spring and, remarkably, it’s already the most popular course in the 317-year history of the university.

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Roughly 1,200 students are currently enrolled in the class, that’s about a quarter of Yale’s total student body. Psychology professor Laurie Santos will teach the online version, called “Science of Well-Being”, from her home. The course description reads, “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.”

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The six-week class consists of readings, video lessons, and the ability to connect with fellow classmates. Take a look at the description for the class and enroll at Coursera.

h/t: Mental Floss

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White Woman Calls Police on a Black Yale Student for Napping in Dorm’s Common Room

Sadly, we’ve seen quite a few of this kind of story in the news lately. Minorities being questioned and even sometimes arrested for doing absolutely nothing. It all stems from ignorance, and, as in other cases, this incident started when a white person called the police about a black person they thought was suspicious. This time it was a black woman napping in a dormitory common room at Yale University.

The black student is Lolade Siyonbola, a graduate student in African Studies. As many college students do, Siyonbola fell asleep in her dorm’s common area recently. A fellow Yale student (who is white) called the police and reported an “unauthorized person” in the dormitory. Siyonbola was questioned for 15 minutes by the police officers and had to prove to them that she was indeed a student at Yale. Siyonbola said, “I deserve to be here. I paid tuition like everybody else. I am not going to justify my existence here. It’s not even a conversation.”

The dean of Yale’s graduate school of arts and sciences sent an email out to students and issued an apology about the incident.

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And people on Twitter offered their support to Siyonbola.

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One Twitter user shared a thread about her experiences at another elite academic institution, Harvard.

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Another person weighed in on the problem with white citizens “policing” public areas.

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And another Twitter user weighed in with their similar experience.

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We all need to learn from these unfortunate incidents so they aren’t repeated in the future. So pay attention, people.

h/t: Yes Plz

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