MGMT 258Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design
Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Business school teaches students how to optimize all aspects of a business from financial returns, to operations, employee output, customer relationships, etc. Rather than the business, study focuses on optimizing the current and future lives of the individuals who will enter, build, and lead those businesses. Focus on growing one’s capacity as a future business leader, which starts with developing the individual as a whole and happy person. Insights are pulled from decades of research in positive psychology. Offers students a set of ideas and tools that can be applied to improve their day-to-day living, and design of their careers and lives overall.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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.