Yale Provides Free Psychology Course to High School Students WHAT’S THE SCIENTIFICWAY TO BE HAPPY? High school students are taking a free class from Yale and it’s about one of the most difficult topics adults have to navigate their whole lives: happiness. In 2018, Yale Professor Laurie Santos created Psychology and the Good Life, a course designed to address the growing mental health needs of students on campus. It attracted over 1,200 undergraduate students immediately upon its first semester and became one of the most popular online classes in Yale’s history. Today, the course is being offered free for more than 550 low- income high school students across the US — and yes, it gives free college credit upon completion! Santos told the Good News Network, “Our goal is to equip students with scientifically validated strategies for living a more satisfying life while also creating opportunities for high-striving low-income students and students of color to demonstrate college readiness.” The program was developed in partnership with University of Connecticut and the National Education Equity Lab and will be offered in more than 40 Title I schools in 17 cities, including Atlanta, New York City, Los Angeles and New Haven. Students receive access to Santos’ lectures and support by a local teacher at their high school and a Yale Teaching Fellow. The high school class will be slightly modified from the original course but will present students with the same essential, scientifically validated strategies for living a more satisfying life. What does psychological science say about happiness? Is there a scientifically proven way to be less stressed? Students can find answers in this course and put their findings into practice. “This is a really challenging time and that means that students need to learn new strategies to protect their mental health,” said Santos. “Our goal is to give students the tools they need to flourish and feel better. But in addition, we can give students a rigorous Yale educational experience and an opportunity to see that they have what it takes to succeed in college and beyond.”
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High schoolers and teachers can encourage their local schools to pick up this free course today; go to DrLaurieSantos.com
and fill out the information to get started. And if you’d like to take the course yourself, you can! Dr. Santos created a version of it for Coursera.org — just search “The Science of Well-Being.” You can also listen to their hit podcast, “The Happiness Lab,” which is in Apple’s Top 5 Podcasts with over 30 million downloads!
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