UConn’s Well-Liked Emotional Well-Being Course Now Free and Available To The Public

STORRS, CT — A well-received "pop-up" course taken by thousands of students at the University of Connecticut is now being offered to the public — for free.

Faculty members and graduate students from the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and the Mechanisms Underlying Mind-Body Interventions & Measurement of Emotional Well-Being, or M3EWB network, have created a free, publicly available UConn mini-course called Emotional Well-being.

The new mini-course contains learning modules and research briefs based on the content from a popular, one-credit UConn pop-up course called Feeling Well: The Science and Practice of Emotional Well-Being.

The multidisciplinary course, which was offered twice during the 2023-24 academic year and completed by more than 2,000 students, focused on critical topics such as how emotional well-being affects physical and mental health, and presented information on how to develop tools to pursue emotional well-being at different life stages, school officials said.

Sandra Chafouleas, Board of Trustees distinguished professor and Neag endowed professor of school psychology in the Neag School of Education and co-director of CSCH, coordinated the Feeling Well pop-up course along with Beth Russell, professor in human development and family sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Karen McComb, director of health promotion and community impact at UConn Student Health and Wellness.

Chafouleas is principal investigator for the M3EWB network, along with UConn Waterbury Dean Fumiko Hoeft and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences Crystal Park.

A total of 11 other faculty and staff from across the University’s departments and campuses contributed to the course’s modules.

The new mini-course consolidates a lot of information from articles and briefs into a series exploring the what, why, and how of emotional well-being. Users will be able to navigate the resource in a way that works best for them by choosing which learning modules to explore and in what order. It is the hope of the mini-course team that those who complete the course will gain their own set of strategies to support them in their journey to feeling well.

The work of UConn school psychology doctoral students was essential to getting the materials ready for the public.

To access the new, free UConn mini-course, members of the public can visit csch.uconn.edu/emotional-well-being.