[Note: For administrative reasons, the course is taught under the 21C03000 label, but the name and actual content of the course are described below]
Designing life: Finding motivation, direction and meaning to life and work
How to live? What values are worth striving for? What goals are worth pursuing? What to do with this unique life you are living? How to make good choices as regards your own future?
Indeed, what is the meaning of life?
These are a few of the fundamental questions everyone of us wonders about occasionally. Sometimes more theoretically, but more probably as connected to one’s own life. In various life junctures, crises, and times of change, we stop to wonder about the choices and commitments we are about to take.
As a student, many of these critical choices are still ahead of you. So now is a great time to learn more about yourself, your own values, and life goals especially suitable for you. This will help you to design a life and life attitudes that better reflect the person you are and that will give you higher likelihood of enjoying a satisfying and meaningful existence.
This course aims to help you in designing a better life for yourself. This is an ambitious goal, and the course will not offer readymade answers. Instead, it will:
The course will be relatively hands-on in the sense that it will be much based on various individual-level exercises, group discussions, and writing assignments all of which aim to help you to think better about your own life.The course can’t design your life. But it will give you guidance, tools, theories, empirical knowledge, insights, and exercises that hopefully will assist you in your own personal quest to live a life that is motivating, directed, and meaningful. Indeed, a life worth living!
- Awaken you to the importance of
being in charge of your own life choices
- Give you conceptual and theoretical
tools to think about goals, values, and life choices
- Introduce you to the science and
philosophy behind these questions and what do we empirically know about good
- Introduce you to various life paths,
values, and goals that can offer you inspiration in making your own choices
- Give you a number of exercises and tools that can help you both now and in the future to make more informed and deliberate life choices that better reflect your own basic human nature
- Awaken you to the importance of being in charge of your own life choices
"Kwa sababu za kiutawala, kozi hii inafundishwa chini ya lebo ya ""21C03000"" lakini jina na maudhui halisi ya kozi hiyo yanaelezwa hapa chini: ""Kujenga Maisha: Kupata Kichocheo, Mwelekeo na Maana ya Maisha na Kazi.""" Ni maadili gani yanayostahili kupigania? Ni miradi gani inayostahili kufuatiliwa? Unapaswa kufanya nini na maisha haya ya kipekee unayoishi? Jinsi ya kufanya maamuzi mazuri kuhusu wakati wako ujao Kwa kweli, kusudi la maisha ni nini? Hizi ni baadhi ya maswali ya msingi ambayo kila mmoja wetu hujiuliza mara kwa mara. Wakati mwingine zaidi kinadharia, lakini zaidi ya uwezekano kama kushikamana na maisha ya mtu mwenyewe. Katika nyakati tofauti za maisha, wakati wa shida, na wakati wa mabadiliko, tunasimama na kujiuliza juu ya chaguzi na ahadi ambazo tunakaribia kuchukua. Kama mwanafunzi, bado una maamuzi mengi muhimu ya kufanya. Kwa hiyo, sasa ni wakati mzuri wa kujifunza mengi zaidi juu yako mwenyewe, maadili yako mwenyewe, na miradi ya maisha inayokufaa hasa. Hii itakusaidia kubuni maisha na mitazamo ya maisha ambayo huonyesha vizuri zaidi mtu uliye na ambayo itakupa uwezekano mkubwa wa kufurahia maisha yenye kuridhisha na yenye maana. Kozi hii inakusudia kukusaidia katika kubuni maisha bora kwa ajili yako mwenyewe. Hii ni lengo lenye kutamaniwa, na kozi hiyo haitatoa majibu ya tayari. "Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, ""Mafunzo haya yatakuwa ya mikono kwa maana ya kuwa yatategemea sana mazoezi mbalimbali ya ngazi ya mtu binafsi, majadiliano ya kikundi, na kuandika kazi zote ambazo zinakusudia kukusaidia kufikiri vizuri juu ya maisha yako mwenyewe." Lakini itakupa mwongozo, zana, nadharia, maarifa ya uzoefu, ufahamu, na mazoezi ambayo, kwa matumaini, yatakusaidia katika utafutaji wako wa kibinafsi wa kuishi maisha ambayo ni ya kuhamasisha, iliyoelekezwa, na yenye maana. Kwa kweli, maisha yenye thamani ya kuishi! - Kukupa umuhimu wa kuwa na jukumu la uchaguzi wako mwenyewe wa maisha - Kukupa zana za dhana na nadharia za kufikiria malengo, maadili, na uchaguzi wa maisha - Kukutambulisha kwa sayansi na falsafa nyuma ya maswali haya na tunachojua kwa uzoefu juu ya mema - Kukutambulisha kwa njia mbalimbali za maisha, maadili, na malengo ambayo yanaweza kukupa msukumo wa kufanya uchaguzi wako mwenyewe wa maisha - Kukupa idadi ya mazoezi na zana ambazo zinaweza kukusaidia sasa na katika siku zijazo kufanya uchaguzi wa maisha unaofahamu zaidi na unaofikiria.