Can Happiness be a project? Is the pursuit of happiness an intentional endeavor that can be practiced, learned, and discovered, or is happiness something that is simply attained as a byproduct of life, while people are busy making other plans? This course will dive deeper into these big questions as we explore defining happiness and determining how it may be attainable in daily life and throughout a lifetime. By examining the lives of some of the world’s happiest people and conducting research and interviews into the lives of some of the happiest people we know personally, the work of the course will use our learning about happiness to guide this term-long project. This course will incorporate a happiness lab component which will steadily engage students in experiential learning in the local community, developing practices, and conducting experiments to gain more insight into joy, happiness, and the power of relationships and community connection.