Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern science, this paper investigates the meaning and value of happiness, and the role it plays in making our lives go well for us.

There are two lectures in each of the 12 normal teaching weeks (except for the last week, which has one lecture and one in-class test). Although attendance at lectures will not be recorded, students should consider attendance compulsory because some information required to do well on the assessment will be presented during lectures (and not in the readings). Lectures will be recorded on Panopto, and lecture slides will be posted on Moodle after the second lecture of each week, so it is easy to keep up if students have to miss a lecture.

Attendance at lectures is also important because this paper uses a student response system (Xorro-q) for in-class testing. Every lecture will include some testing and each student's top 20 in-class marks out of the 23 lectures will count towards their final grade. So, students should plan on attending at least most, and probably all lectures. The in-class testing includes questions on the reading set for that lecture, so make sure you do the reading before you come to class. More details on this in the Assessments section below.

There is one workshop in each of the first 11 or the 12 normal teaching weeks (i.e. every week except for the last week). To be clear, workshops start in week 1. Workshops are always on the same topic as the lectures in each week. Attendance at the workshops is not compulsory, but participation is graded. So, students should attend as many workshops as possible, preferably all of them.

There are no tutorials or labs for this paper, and there is no exam.

Students should complete the reading tasks just before or during the start of the week/topic block they appear in (in Moodle). Please note that some of the information required to do well on the Online Quizzes and the Essay will be presented in the readings but not during lectures, so students should consider all of the material under the "Reading" heading each week to be compulsory. When grading the assessment for this paper, we assume that students are familiar with all of the lecture and reading content for the relevant topics.

Moodle also contains readings and other resources that fall under "Optional Materials" headings. Students are welcome to investigate these materials as their interest dictates. Students will not be expected to be familiar with the Optional Materials, except for if they write an Essay on that topic. Students should check the Essay Information sheet to see which Readings and Optional Materials they are expected to be familiar with for each essay prompt.

The Essay is to be submitted via Moodle. Every effort will be made to return marked essays (via Moodle) within 14 days after the due date. Essays will certainly be returned before 21 days after the due date. You will be informed if there is any delay.

Failure to submit an assessment does not automatically result in failing the course, but you will need to complete all of the assessment tasks to get a good grade.