UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BBA307

Holistic Health & Happiness

L-T-P2-1-0 Credits3 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

BBA · Sem 3 (Core)

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Syllabus

5 units · 20 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1: Introduction

4 hrs
  • Concept, Dimensions of health: Physical, Mental, Social, Spiritual, Environmental.
  • Energy Wheels in the body: The Seven Chakras, Impact of thoughts on the body: Strategies for Holistic Health and Spiritual Life Style.
Unit2

Unit 2: Understanding Positive Living

4 hrs
  • Causes of Happiness: Heritability, Personality and Environmental basis.
  • Stress-free living: Causes, symptoms, and types of stress, as well as management of stress and anger.
  • Benefits of meditation and Yoga, Power of soul connectedness.
Unit3

Unit 3: Excellence in life

4 hrs
  • Relationships and Happiness, Stages of Relationships in family life cycle.
  • Managing thoughts and emotions: Positive Thinking and its benefits
  • Emotional Intelligence (EI), Goleman’s Model of EI, Strategies for enhancing EI.
Unit4

Unit 4: Positive Change

4 hrs
  • Strengths to bear on opportunities and challenges.
  • Stages of change and the change processes.
  • Self-help strategies for Positive change.
Unit5

Unit 5: Holistic Health and Happiness Activities

4 hrs
  • Positive Living: (Pre-measurement; Identify a Fear; Overcoming fears, Perceived Stress.
  • Excellence in Life: Sharing feelings and expressions, Revive a Relationship, Motivational Stories and Tasks.
  • Positive Change: Take a Challenge; Complete the Challenge; Emotional Expressiveness
Course Objectives1 points
  • This course aims to enhance the students' understanding of holistic health, specifically in terms of indigenous knowledge. To help the students understand the importance of thoughts in affecting the body and the level of holistic health and happiness.
Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Understand the dimensions of health and explain the role of chakras, thoughts, and spiritual lifestyle in achieving holistic well-being.K1, K2 (Remembering, Understanding)
  2. CO2Identify sources of happiness, differentiate types of stress, and apply stress and anger management techniques including yoga and meditation.K1, K2, K3 (Remembering, Understanding, Applying)
  3. CO3Analyze the role of emotional intelligence, positive thinking, and relationship dynamics in achieving excellence in life.K2, K4 (Understanding, Analyzing)
  4. CO4Describe the process of personal change, recognize inner strengths, and implement self-help strategies for sustaining positive transformation.K2, K3, K4 (Understanding, Applying, Analyzing)
  5. CO5Demonstrate holistic health practices through activities that promote emotional expressiveness, overcoming fear, and nurturing relationships.K3, K4, K5 (Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating)

Suggested Readings

  1. Baumgardeners, S. & Crothers, M. (2015): Positive Psychology. Pearson.
  2. Carr Alarr (2004): Positive Psychology. Routledge.
  3. Cotton, D.H.G. (1990). Stress Management: An integrated approach to therapy. New York: Brunner/Mazel
  4. Davis, M., Eshelman, R.E. & McKay, M. (2019). The relaxation and stress reduction workbook.
  5. Haidt, J. (2006). The Happiness Hypothesis: finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic Books Group.
  6. Pradhan, M., & Javed, N. (2023). Holistic Health and Happiness. Anu Books
  7. Snyder C. R. & Shane, J. Lopez (2007): Positive Psychology, Sage. S. No.

Official AKTU syllabus

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