CCCX 218 Joyfulness and Well-Being

What makes you joyful? What prevents you from experiencing joyfulness? How is joyfulness related to your well-being? This course examines how experiences of joyfulness and well-being are culturally situated and how such states can be cultivated through physical, mental, social, cultural, and spiritual practices. You will draw upon your lived experiences and engage your creative interests in arts, media, and communication as a means of informing these practices. Through engagement with community resources at Columbia and the wider Chicago area as well as critical analysis of introductory readings and viewings in joy, pleasure, resilience, and the body/mind/spirit relationship, you will expand upon and strengthen your self-care and community care practices to optimize your bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual well-being. Some classes require mild to moderate movement.

Repeatable: N
DEI CC
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3