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Positive Psychology is the scientific study of flourishing and optimal functioning at the individual, group, and institutional levels. The core research question that positive psychologists explore, examine, and answer is “What makes life worth living?” from different worldviews. In this course, students will reflect on their past, present, and prospective futures through a positive lens. During the semester, students will learn about and discuss positive experiences, virtue and character strengths, positive relationships, and positive institutions. The college years are a critical stage for determining one’s life purpose and path. This course helps students to examine their life’s pursuits as well as their underlying structures to ensure a healthy root (belief/value) system that allows them to flourish and have a fruitful life, which can benefit their own as well as others’ lives. Through this course, I hope to increase students’ awareness of well-being in themselves and others around them and to establish a community of support.