Spring Semester 2025
The Good Life & How to Live It is open to University of Cincinnati upper division (third year and beyond) undergraduate students in all colleges and majors. First and second year students may be admitted with the course director's permission. Enrollment in this popular course is capped so be sure to enroll early!
Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30 – 4:50 p.m.
The Good Life & How to Live It attracts three undergraduate credit hours and fulfills the Humanities Breadth of Knowledge requirement.
This life-changing course is taught seminar style with weekly readings, discussion, lectures, and student presentations.
Philosophers, theologians, poets, and scientists have grappled with these questions and recommended ways to achieve the good life. They've tried to teach us how to live happily and well. In this course, we encounter some of the most influential thinkers in both Western and Asian societies who have dealt with questions surrounding happiness and good living over more than two millennia. We read and discuss their thoughts as a way to help us develop our own philosophy of happiness and good living – a philosophy that will inform our life choices, console us when we encounter life’s difficulties, and guide us in our roles as friends and engaged citizens who care about our own happiness and the happiness of others.
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