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Christian Century, April 18, 2006
BE HAPPY: Tal D. Ben-Shahar teaches two of the three most popular courses at Harvard College. In those two courses he teaches at least a fifth of Harvard's undergraduates. But he is not on track to get tenure and is not seeking it at Harvard. To get tenure he would have to conduct original research and publish the results.
His passion is teaching. His most popular course is "Positive Psychology," which doesn't focus on pathologies but follows the assumption that happy people function better and that optimism is a skill that can be taught and learned. Although it sounds like a self-help course, it is part of a national trend in higher education and is grounded in serious psychological research (Boston Globe, March 10).
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