Happiness and Wellbeing

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate critically influential accounts of happiness and well-being.
• articulate and defend your own views concerning the nature of happiness and wellbeing
• explore the implications of those accounts for how we should live and organise society.
• see connections between those accounts and issues in other areas of study, such as economics, sociology, law, education, and politics.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the arguments for and against those theories.
• the relevance of those theories for how we should live.
• influential theories of happiness and wellbeing.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• take notes from talks and written materials.
• undertake, with adequate supervision, independent work, including identifying and using appropriate resources.
• work effectively to deadlines.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Essay proposal

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Written feedback will be provided. The opportunity to receive oral feedback from the module co-ordinator on any aspect of your performance during office hours or by appointment.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No
• Percentage contribution: 100%

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.