
Cool Classes: Positive Psychology
Teamed with students at a nearby prison, Bucknell undergraduates question what it means to live a happy life, and who deserves happiness.
Teamed with students at a nearby prison, Bucknell undergraduates question what it means to live a happy life, and who deserves happiness.
Tomorrow's managers and innovators learn laws and lingo to guide science policy.
Bucknell students explore the biology and cultural meaning of flowers and create floral art in a new interdisciplinary course.
Bucknell students discover that everything old is new again in the stock market, in a course that compares historical events to the realities of Wall Street today.
Bucknell students dig, paddle and climb their way to understanding the changing Earth.
An interdisciplinary course bridges the gap between management and the arts and sciences, pushing Bucknell students out of their comfort zones and helping them build character.
Bucknell students uncover the delicate balance underpinning everyday life.
Explore the bands, movements, scenes and fashions of punk genres — and the common values that link them across decades.
A Bucknell course helps students identify and navigate pitfalls that lead to poor choices.
What happens when computer science is infused with psychology, sociology, art and design? Bucknell students take a hands-on approach to finding out.
A new class in arts management prepares Bucknell students for successful careers in the creative and artistic sector.
A Bucknell course challenges students to question their media consumption in a society migrating to new virtual spaces.
Through critical analysis, Bucknell students explore the deeper meaning of favorite childhood books.
How have humans over the centuries molded the materials around them, and how have those materials altered us? Bucknell students examine how we all live in a material world.
Bucknell students gain new perspectives on higher education in this course by discussing provocative readings and new survey data.
Bucknell students explore the biological roots of romantic behavior in Professor Joel Wade's Psychology of Beauty and Attraction class.
Between semesters, Bucknell students take advantage of summer courses to examine film, sustainability, globalization and more.
Why does time equal money? Why is happy 'up' and sad 'down'? Bucknell students read between linguistic lines.
Society & Technology Residential College students ponder life and what comes next.
Bucknell Humanities Residential College students explore the role of portraits in art, literature and contemporary culture.
Bucknell Global Residential College students explore how events around the world are connected, why they happen and what they mean.
Bucknell Environmental Residential College students explore the relationship between culture, community and the environment.
Bucknell student entrepreneurs don't just ask how, they ask why.
Bucknell Residential College students question the elements that make us human.
Bucknell Arts Residential College students create their own masks and performances to explore social identity.
Young immigrants in the local community are helping educate future teachers while also becoming more comfortable in their new surroundings.
These classes keep learning active throughout the summer at Bucknell.
How a coloring book helps Bucknell University students understand the dynamic relationship between text, reader and religious tradition.
How do artists and engineers practice creativity? This interdisciplinary course uses digital critique to find out.
Bucknell students recreate products developed by innovative black businesswomen to explore history, race and entrepreneurship.
Is it art or destruction? Science or faith? Doubts or debts? It's all about perspective.
When learning about social issues, Bucknell students are encouraged to tune in, act up and speak out.
By studying religious ritual and emotion, Bucknell students confront and explore a taboo topic: death.
Students study the secrets held by the greatest lake in Africa to learn the math behind controlling epidemics, administering drugs and managing ecosystems.
Despite long hours, intense pressure and group work challenges, this class is both legendary among and beloved by Bucknell students.
This class explores how the renegades and raiders of legend and lore have fueled positive change in the world.
Understanding the science behind how foods are made can help students develop a new appreciation for what they eat.
Bucknell students study the historical evolution of American higher education.
In this class, Bucknell students are challenged to make sense of their inherently messy social worlds.
Bucknell students consider how the nation has changed since the election of President Obama.
What makes this Bucknell class so cool? BRAAAAAINS.
Their assignment: Break into their classmates' computer systems while protecting the security of their own.
Bucknell students learn about peace by delving into philosophical and psychological questions about memory and forgiveness.
From volcanic eruptions to floods to earthquakes, Bucknell students explore the raw power behind Earth's catastrophic events.
Students collaborate, create and innovate to answer a central question: "What is knowledge?" And it all starts with a hunch.
Some of today's most outrageous entertainment is trumped by Renaissance drama.
Bucknell students create slam poetry to confront their preconceptions about the feminist movement.
This engineering course turns the traditional teacher-learner model upside-down, and empowers Bucknell students to become the experts.
Bucknell students discover shipwrecks and explore uncharted territories to determine who owns the history of the sea.
Want to know the secrets of your favorite team's success — or failure? Take this class.
This Bucknell class has binge-watching down to a science. Literally.
In this cool class, Bucknell students learn that innovation is all around us.
Bucknell students reinvigorate Martin Luther King's "beloved community."
In this cool class, Bucknell students explore one of our most intimate relations to the world: eating.
Bucknell students learn the first step in decision-making: Check your stats — and everyone else's.
In this installment of our new web feature, "Cool Classes," Bucknell students heed the call of the wild in winter to understand humankind's relationship with the world.
In the first installment of our new web feature, "Cool Classes," we see how Bucknell students better understand literature by watching Downton Abbey.
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