Drawing on research and applied practice in Performance Psychology alongside related disciplines, such as Sport, Educational and Organizational Psychology, this course helps students investigate how high performers prepare, adapt, and grow through adversity and how these lessons can be applied to everyday contexts such as study, relationships, leadership and major life transitions. Students will engage in self-reflection, case study analysis, and practical workshops to build skills in self awareness, decision-making, and resilience.

Positive psychology encompasses the study of positive experience, positive individual traits, and the institutions and practices that facilitate their development. This course briefly reviews the history of positive psychology and the contributions this new field has made to several traditional research areas in psychology. Spending little time on simple textbook theory, this course applies positive psychology concepts to real life dilemmas and fundamentals of students' wellbeing.

Sexuality is often left out of the mental health conversation, even though sexual health and thriving in sexuality and relationships make up an enormous part of our mental health and wellbeing. Sexual behaviors and identity will be examined through personal development, culture, biological influences, as well as the influence of attitudes, behaviors, upbringing, knowledge, practices, and myths surrounding human sexuality a

This course will approach the science of a meaningful life with three major themes in mind: (1) the scientific basis of a meaningful life; (2) cultural variations in approaches to a meaningful life; and (3) implementing practices into one's own life to promote happiness, meaningfulness, and wellbeing. This course will help you think more carefully about core aspects of human well-being apply to your own life.

This course will explore the subject of human mental health and development in populations around the world, with additional emphasis on the role that development during childhood plays in shaping long-term health, illness, and well-being of both the individual and their societies. We will examine a collection of global health problems deeply rooted in rapidly changing social structures and that transcend national and other administrative boundaries. Although taught from a psychological perspective, this course is necessarily interdisciplinary.

A third of the world's population (3 billion individuals) experiences more than five ailments. A straightforward way to assess the health status of a population is to focus on mortality or life expectancy. A focus on mortality, however, does not take into account that the burden of diseases is not only that they kill people, but that they cause suffering to people who live with them. This course focuses on how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness and examines the impact of health conditions on cognition and wellbeing.