Brand new campus culture, brand new communities, brand new life. With so much new in your life, why stick with old habits? Recent research in positive psychology provides practical ideas that can impact our wellbeing. In our class, we’ll study up-to-date research and then apply it to our own lives by “rewiring” our small habits. We will complicate easy solutions about happiness by investigating “toxic positivity” and bittersweet states of mind. We’ll dive into pressing topics like cultural measures of happiness, physiological factors of wellbeing, and situational supports from fields like psychology, sociology, mindfulness, and environmental studies. This class will culminate in multi-modal research projects. If we choose to take insights to heart from the class--we stand to change our culture in big ways.