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The search for one of life's greatest goals, happiness, is what brings almost 1,200 students to one of Yale University's most popular classes ever. ____Psychology professor Laurie Santos teaches the class.
One in four Yale undergraduate students has registered to take it. It has the largest class registration size in Yale's 317-year history. ____Santos says it is the hope that science can help students find peace among all the stresses and difficulties they face at college. "Students report being more depressed than they have ever been in history at college," she said.
Social science research has led to many new understandings of how people find happiness, Santos says. ____ she said of the students taking her happiness class.
Santos said feelings of happiness are created through several things. ____ She added that while many people may see money and possessions as goals in life, those things are not usually what make people most happy. School work for the happiness class, also known as Psyc157, includes showing more gratitude, performing acts of kindness and increasing social connections. Because of the popularity of the class, it has been made publicly available -- for free – on the website Coursera.
The class is already helping Yale students like senior Rebekah Siliezar. ____"What's most pressing on our minds is grades, it's the next job, it's a potential salary after graduation," said Siliezar. Now, she said tries more to "focus on the present moment and the people around me."
A. It is the third-oldest university in the United States.
B. The class is called "Psychology and the Good Life"
C. She describes her mindset before taking the class
D. Therefore, why do so many students want this class?
E. They really want to learn those insights in a science-driven way
F. Happy people even make time to talk to people who work at coffee shops.
G. Among them are socialization, exercise, meditation (冥想) and plenty of sleep.
