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諸國名橋奇覧　飛越の堺つりはし "The Suspension Bridge on the Border of Hida and Etchū Provinces (Hietsu no sakai tsuribashi)", Katsushika Hokusai , ca. 1830, woodblock print; ink and color on paper (Japan)

Leadership & the Good Life

By Zachary C. Wooten

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"Flowers and Butterflies", Attributed to Ma Quan, 1644–1911, Chinese Qing Dynasty

A Life Worth Living (The University of Hong Kong)

By Daniel Chua

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"Eesti maastik", Herald Eelma, 1969, Tartu Art Museum (Estonia)

Personal Vision of a Life Worth Living—Summative Essay: Assignment 3

By Joshua Forstenzer

By Joshua Forstenzer & Casey Strine

"Eesti maastik", Herald Eelma, 1969, Tartu Art Museum (Estonia)

The Emergence and Development of a Tradition—Coursework Essay: Assignment 2

By Joshua Forstenzer

By Joshua Forstenzer & Casey Strine

"Eesti maastik", Herald Eelma, 1969, Tartu Art Museum (Estonia)

Reflective Learning Journal: Assignment 1

By Joshua Forstenzer

By Joshua Forstenzer & Casey Strine

"Eesti maastik", Herald Eelma, 1969, Tartu Art Museum (Estonia)

Life Worth Living (University of Sheffield)

By Joshua Forstenzer

By Joshua Forstenzer & Casey Strine

Auguste Renoir, "Sea Cliffs", French, ca. 1885

Life Worth Living (Yale)

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Pluralistic, Inter-traditional Collaboration: Field Assignment 2

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The Paradox of Our Humanity: Field Assignment 1

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Carleton E. Watkins, "Cape Horn near Celilo", American, 1867

Religion & the Meaning of Life

By Garrett W. Potts

By Garrett W. Potts

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Courses worth taking

We convene life-giving learning communities that offer space for students and instructors to be their whole selves and to marry their most profound existential questions with the best of their intellectual energies.

We've instructed over 5,000 students at 27 institutions in 7 countries.

Yale University

HUMS 065: Education and the Life Worth Living

What is education for? What does it have to do with real life—not just any life, but a life worth living?

Yale University

HUMS 280: What Matters Most

Who do we answer to for the shape of our lives? What should we hope for? What is the role of suffering in a good life?

Sea and Cliffs Auguste Renoir French ca. 1885

Yale University

HUMS 411: Life Worth Living

What does it mean for a life to go well? What would it look like for a life to be lived well?

Appalachian State University

REL 1010: Religion and Imaginary Worlds

Human beings have a powerful capacity to imagine things that they cannot see, including things that would be better than what we see.

Baldwin Wallace University

Life Worth Living

What is a life well lived? What do we mean when we consider ourselves “happy” or “successful” or “fulfilled” or “good people”, and how do these exist in relationship to one another?

Duke University

The Good Life

‍What does it look like for a human life to go well? What leads to human flourishing or “happiness” or “success”?

Fordham University

Faith and Critical Reason: Pursuing a Life Worth Living

THEO 1000 introduces students to basic theological issues as well as some of the ways that various religious communities and individuals have confronted the pressing questions of meaning in human life.

George Fox University

Philosophies of Life

This course will explore several of the most prominent historical and contemporary philosophies of life.

Georgia State University

CPS 3600 - Positive Psychology: Not Just Happiness, but Pursuit of a Meaningful Life

Who decides the definition of a life worth living in our modern society?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology—MIT Media Lab

What is a Better Future?

MIT equips and encourages its students and researchers to develop technology for a better future - in computing, AI, biological engineering, and countless other fields.

New Bulgarian University

Leadership in Education

The course invites students to discover and shape their leadership style both as individuals and future education professionals.

Lived responses to
life’s big questions.

Every spring at Yale, we engage a number of guest practitioners whose lives have been shaped by a particular cultural, religious, or philosophical tradition.

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Network Hubs

The Life Worth Living Network is growing every year, building momentum with new hubs established at the following institutions.

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

The Leadership Hub, offering the LWL course “Leadership and the Good Life” to honors undergraduate students since 2017, is creating resources, running workshops, and hosting a conference for leadership educators to participate in the LWL network.

University of South Florida

Our Southeastern United States hub, dedicated to applying Life Worth Living themes in healthcare and business contexts. Courses are taught every semester to USF undergraduates.

University of Sheffield UK

A partner in the Life Worth Living network since 2016, hub members teach a Life Worth Living module to undergraduate students each year. The hub is engaged in research on student experience and wellbeing, along with exploring ways to expand Life Worth Living into graduate courses and non-academic settings.

University of Hong Kong

Introduced to the University of Hong Kong by the university's Faith and Global Engagement program, Life Worth Living courses are taught every year as a part of HKU's Common Core offerings. Situated at the cosmopolitan crossroads of Asia, Life Worth Living introduces a new generation of students to leaders from the world's great thought traditions.

Yale University

Our founding hub, established by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture in 2014, Life Worth Living courses are taught every year to Yale undergraduates and medical students.

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Help your students integrate the best of their intellectual energies with their most profound existential questions.

Fellowship Program

The Life Worth Living Network offers fellowships to encourage undergraduate education on enduring questions about the shape of flourishing life. We connect faculty and graduate students like you, who seek to design and facilitate courses that equip students for the lifelong process of discerning the good life. Together, we envision an educational landscape in which diverse communities of students and faculty learn alongside each other how to ask and respond to life’s biggest questions.

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