You’re afraid you might have the 101 Blues, aren’t you?
You know what we’re talking about. You’re hulking around these monstrous textbooks that cost as much as your dad’s first car. You’re reviewing the chapters and watching as, quite literally right before your eyes, the words blend together into a jumbled mass of gray that makes as much sense as the instructions on that furniture you never ended up putting together.
And now it’s time for finals.
Ugh.
If only there were a different kind of class … the kind where you might learn about happiness.
You saw this coming, I know, but there is such a class. It’s PSY 203 – 4002 Advanced General Psychology, the Psychology of Happiness, and professor Ann Bullis will be teaching it at CSN next semester.
“The good life can be taught,” the official class description reads. “The aim of this class is to move away from pathologies and towards a science of positive subjective experience, individual traits, and interventions that improve quality of life. Happiness leads to desirable outcomes at school and work, to fulfilling social relationships, and even to good health and long life.”
OK?
OK.
(As an aside, it’s not the only unusual class CSN is offering next semester. Have you heard about the zombies class?)
Bullis, who’s been teaching at CSN for more than a decade now after a career as a showgirl (for real), also teaches the basics, i.e., psych and soc 101. She’s also been teaching a class called Profile of a Psychopath for a while now, and it’s really popular.
But it can also get you down, you know? Talking about serial killers and whatnot all the time. Students did all these presentations on Ted Bundy or whomever, and, while they were good, the whole thing started creeping her out.
“I’d be scared walking to my car,” she joked.
So Bullis, who is a licensed therapist, came upon this happiness idea.
There’s plenty of research in the field. She’ll be using that research in class because, you know, as fun as it sounds, it’s still a college class. Topics will include increasing and sustaining happiness and exercises that can lead to happiness, among others.
The class will be held on Tuesday nights on CSN’s Henderson campus for the Spring 2015 semester. So go sign up before it’s too late. It could help chase away those 101 Blues.