HNRS 109Living Consciously: Philosophy in Everyday Life
Honors Collegium · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
What do decisions you make and actions you take say about who you are? What does it look like when you consciously inform your everyday life with your own mindfully developed way of seeing world? Through readings, discussions, exercises, and writing, exploration of practice and ensuing results of living consciously. Students develop and articulate their personal philosophies through intensively and personally exploring various ways of thinking about and acting in world, and through exploring how social world influences and creates philosophies by which we live (whether we know it or not).
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.