Spring 2027

The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

Explores human flourishing through science and humanities, focusing on resilience, compassion, and community to build self-awareness and meaningful engagement in life and career.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 John Dunne

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Tony Chambers

The workload included weekly journals and quizzes, which students found super easy and interesting.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze and describe the relevant concepts and theories on the nature and cultivation of human flourishing from multiple intellectual fields including psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies.

  • Describe and engage with the many dimensions of flourishing, and the various extrinsic and intrinsic factors influencing them.

  • Formulate an account of human flourishing.

  • Employ contemplative practices in an inquiry that cultivates qualities of human flourishing from within.

  • Integrate contemplative practice and knowledge of course materials in order to establish a foundation for flourishing in your life and the communities in which you live.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3 UW Guide 4

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

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ASIAN/COUNPSY/EDPSYCH/PSYCH 120

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Prerequisite text tree
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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.76 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=291 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.66 GPA, 87.9% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.55 GPA, 76.1% A/AB (n=71 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANTHONY CHAMBERS is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHARO D'ETCHEVERRY is recorded teaching in Fall 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOHN DUNNE is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 750
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 750
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 750
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 750
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 250

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Charo D'Etcheverry

Students described the course as one of their favorites, noting that the material felt applicable and the class emphasized the learning experience over grades.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.66 GPA, 87.9% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.65 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=300 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.55 GPA, 76.1% A/AB (n=71 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Tony Chambers

The workload included weekly journals and quizzes, which students found super easy and interesting.

Past student reviews · Tony Chambers

Discussion sections were entertaining, but lectures were sometimes boring because they were taught by multiple professors rather than just the primary instructor.

Topics

  • Transformation, resilience, compassion, diversity, gratitude, and community.
  • Perspectives from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies.
  • Contemplative practices for cultivating human flourishing.

Skills

  • Analyze and describe concepts and theories on human flourishing across psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies.
  • Employ contemplative practices to cultivate qualities of human flourishing.
  • Integrate contemplative practice and course knowledge to establish a foundation for flourishing in personal and community life.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ASIAN/COUNPSY/EDPSYCH/PSYCH 120 · Spring 2027

The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN/COUNPSY/EDPSYCH/PSYCH 120 · Spring 2027

The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN/COUNPSY/EDPSYCH/PSYCH 120 · Spring 2027

The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN/COUNPSY/EDPSYCH/PSYCH 120 · Spring 2027

The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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