Social Psychology

Health & Fitness - Chart Your Path to Lifelong Fitness: What factors influence our bodies as we strive to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle? In this course, you’ll learn about fitness components, exercise principles, training methods, movement phases, and athletic performance. You’ll set personal fitness goals, track your progress, and engage in weekly exercises to target various areas of fitness. Through reflection and feedback, you’ll understand how your efforts lead to improvement. The course ends with a student-led project where you will choose and explore topics that matter to you, such as nutrition, mental health in sports, exercise science, biomechanics, careers in sport, or community-based sports initiatives.

Positive Psychology - Unlock the Secrets to a Meaningful Life: What does it take to live a happy, meaningful, and fulfilling life? While traditional psychology often focuses on diagnosing human suffering, positive psychology flips the script and explores what truly makes life worth living—love, creativity, humor, mindfulness, and more. In this course, you’ll dive into fascinating research about the ingredients for happiness and the science behind fulfilling relationships, creativity, mindfulness, and even the brain’s response to art, music, and physical activity. You’ll learn from experts, including Martin Seligman’s well-being theory, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow, and Angela Lee Duckworth’s research on grit. But it doesn’t stop at theory—you'll put your knowledge into action by learning how to conduct ethical research and experiments with subjects like yourself, your peers, and your family.

Problem Solving with Engineering & Design - Think Like an Engineer: Dive into the exciting intersection of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by tackling meaningful, real-world challenges. In this project-based course, you’ll develop essential engineering skills like design principles, modeling, and presentation techniques while leveraging a variety of computer hardware and software tools. Collaborating in teams, you’ll design prototypes and explore practical applications of science and math to address issues in your home, community, and beyond.