The creation of happiness and the facilitation of positive development occur in non-medical arenas such as education, public policy, resource generation, and community planning. This learning community will use an interdisciplinary framework to study wellness across the individual, family, and society levels and will assess past, current, and future efforts to improve the wellness of a given population. GPA of 3.3 Students learn the logic of making sound choices in their professional and private lives and tools to put them into practice. These are based on simple models that quantify the decider's knowledge and values. Case studies are drawn from instructor's experience advising government and business leaders.
Students evaluate dilemmas of their own and live public policy issues.
Success in the course depends on analytic skill rather than material absorption.