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Dibs Fall 2026

PSYCTRY 79

Applied Positive Neuroscience: Skills for Improving Productivity and Well-Being

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to students with credit for Community Health Sciences 179. Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal contributions to well-being, and how activity and chemistry of key brain regions contribute to each, e.g. influences of mindfulness on prefrontal cortex activity, or how oxytocin system is altered by social interaction. Students learn to recognize relationship between cognitive, social, and emotional competence for healthy development, and how to apply it to their own lives. Through neuroscientific context, introduction to multidisciplinary perspectives on variety of topics that are widely considered significant maturational tasks for young adults, including emotion regulation, managing social relationships, enhancing productivity, and identity development. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.84
n = 1,624 · 8 terms · ± 0.014
A range
89%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Closed
120 of 120
100% full
 fills MW 11:00am-12:20pm Korb, A.
3.84n=1,624 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 22521F
  • 24422S
  • 24022F
  • 24823S
  • 24523F
  • 12824S
  • 23524F
  • 11425S
Enrolment by term: 21F 225, 22S 244, 22F 240, 23S 248, 23F 245, 24S 128, 24F 235, 25S 114
Peak 248 Most recent 114 in 25S 8 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 413 · 24.6%
  • A 860 · 51.2%
  • A- 177 · 10.5%
  • B+ 70 · 4.2%
  • B 58 · 3.5%
  • B- 18 · 1.1%
  • C+ 6 · 0.4%
  • C 6 · 0.4%
  • C- 6 · 0.4%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • D- 1 · 0.1%
  • F 8 · 0.5%
  • P 46 · 2.7%
  • I 9 · 0.5%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
KORB, ALEXANDER 3.84 3.84 1,624 8 89%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term