Posted on 03/26/2022 8:17:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A New Jersey university is launching what it called the world's first "Master of Arts in Happiness Studies."
Centenary University's program will "explore the implications of happiness for individuals, the workplace, and our broader society," according to the college's announcement. It's set to launch virtually in the fall and will cost students $17,700.
"Whatever profession you identify, there is a place – a very important place for happiness studies – for the science of well-being," Tal Ben Shahar, a happiness expert and the director of the program, told Fox News.
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Sounds like a bunch of mental self-pleasuring...
Grow-up, suit-up, succeed. Where’s my check?
Sounds like a happy ending for all
Coke without the Bottle.
Keeping Your Nose Clean
Wanna guess what my reaction would be if my kid brought home a tuition bill for a degree in Happiness Studies?
Cretinary University.
Tal Ben-Shahar (Hebrew: טל בן-שחר, also known as Tal David Ben-Shachar) born 1970, is an American and Israeli teacher, and writer in the areas of positive psychology and leadership. As a lecturer at Harvard University, Ben-Shahar created the most popular course in Harvard’s history.[1][2] He has subsequently written several best-selling books and in 2011 co-founded Potentialife with Angus Ridgway, a company that provides leadership programs based on the science of behavioral change to organisations, schools and sports organisations globally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ben-Shahar
It makes the University very happy to have some idiot spend 17K to become a debt slave. Universities are the new slave masters.
“I went to college for 4 years and I can’t find a job. Life sucks!”
Cough, cough.
Happiness is a duty to all those around you.
Not to worry, students can take out loans and pay them off thrice (including interest) over a 30 year period.
Has Dennis Prager approved the curriculum?
Hell, a case of beer and a warm and willing coed and I would have aced that Happiness program in college, graduating Summa Cum Laude.
A course in sex, booze, drugs and how to remove tatoos if you reach the age of sensibility. Does the course include the spring break trip to the sea-side or is that extra.
1. More folks responding to the Gospel.
2. All open in-public homosexuality/sexual perversion removed from the land.
3. Illegal immigration controlled and legal immigration tightly controlled thereafter.
4. Illegal drug use and trafficking eliminated.
5. Severe crimes (murder, rape, etc.) punished by public hanging as well as government corruption.
6. Anyone killing anyone due to influence of alcohol executed by public hanging.
7. Completely eliminating ALL raced-based decision making. Everyone treated the same and anyone not doing so severely punished. No preference for race anywhere in society.
8. Implementing caning for punishment for certain violations of policy in the public schools per appropriate age level (high school).
9. Implementing caning for certain crimes for the general public.
10. No restrictions on firearms ownership, but severe punishment (up to and including death) for misuse of firearms.
I am just getting started...
Pursuit of happiness is what we rebelled against mad King George for.
And does a “happiness” masters degree prepare you for a career, a profession?? If so, what???
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