Let me give a little bit background on positive psychology: how we came about and how this class came about.

下面介绍一下积极心理学的背景：,它是如何诞生的，这门课是如何诞生的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Well our goal here was to answer that question for people and then hopefully facilitate friends getting together, shopping courses with each other, for each other, picking up syllabi and thus was born what we dub Harvard Courses.

我们的目的就是要解答这个问题,并希望可以使认识的朋友一起上课，选课的时候也有个商量，拿起教学大纲,从而诞生了这门哈佛课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选