Survey: What Makes you Happy?

Hi again. I was thinking about Jamie's comment to my last post in which she suggested that we try to incorporate other disciplinary approaches because the majority of our students will not be humanties majors.

Anyway, if you click on the title of this post it will take you to a digital art project on surveys (by Chris Jospeh), which I think we could use. This project is obviously more creative than a typical survey, but it did actually survey people in one city about different things that made them happy, and it might be interesting to ask students to analyze the data, summarize it, and/or describe what the numbers suggest. (We could take it a step further and ask them to question the methodology: does this survey really tell us anything abot happiness?) We could also ask them to make their own surveys and/or answer these surveys. And then perhaps analyze or think about the survey as form (maybe also by looking at more "serious" surveys).

I'm just throwing out ideas. I'm not sure how viable any of them really are.

Karen