Sustainable Happiness

Catalog description

This course explores the connections between human happiness, or well-being, and the environment, bringing together two major topics of current concern that are usually treated separately. Topics will span multiple disciplines, including philosophy, biology, psychology, and economics, with topics including the nature and sources of happiness, the ways our welfare depends on connections with the rest of life, issues of environmental justice and racism, the role of individual versus collective action, and solutions such as making cities better for people and the environment. Activities will include field work as well as collaborative work to explore solutions to particular issues.