CERTIFICATE COURSE ON THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS

CERTIFICATE COURSE ON THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS

Credit: 1                                                                           Course Duration: 30 hrs.

OBJECTIVES:

1. To bring an experience marked by predominance of positive emotions and informing them about emerging paradigm of Positive Psychology.
2. Build relevant competencies for experiencing and sharing happiness as lived experience and its implications.

 

COURSE OUTCOME:

CO1 Identify the basic premises of Positive Psychology, and analyze criticisms of the field.

CO2 Identify different ways to define and measure happiness, as well as variables that are related/unrelated to happiness and well-being.

CO3 Employ Positive Psychology interventions to increase personal well-being.

 

Module-I: Introduction to Positive Psychology (5 hrs)

Positive Psychology: definitions, Goals, Nature and fields of Positive Psychology.

Module-II: Positive Emotional States (7hrs)

Positive Emotions and well-being:  psychology of well-being, subjective well-being, The Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotions.

Module-III: Happiness (8hrs)

Introduction to Psychology of happiness, Types of happiness- Eudemonic and Hedonic, Theories of happiness, gender and happiness, marriage and happiness

 

Module-IV: Positive to life (8hrs)

Hope & Optimism, Love, Positive Traits and Life, Genetics and Happiness

 

Practical (2hrs)