Maybe it’s just me, but it sure seems like social interactions with potential romantic partners take up undeniably a lot of time in our lives and a lot of space on our phones. Whether it be attending events just to catch a glimpse of your crush, trying to avoid your latest hook-up disaster or sending screenshots of texts to your 15 closest friends, social interactions in college are undoubtedly extremely important and have a big impact on our overall college experience. So I think it’s time we start giving dating the credit it deserves. Literally. Here’s what it would be like if college dating was a class. Would you pass?

College Dating Culture 101

Auto-Tutorial

Office Hours: Friday and Saturday 10pm-2am location TBD (Select Thursday evenings throughout the semester)

Course Description: This course is solely auto-tutorial. It will provide real-life experience to students concerning dating and hooking up in today’s society. The goal of this course is to improve social skills, create new connections with fellow students and promote interactions that could foster long-term relationships, all while teaching students about the value of self-worth and how to deal with difficult emotional situations.

Required Texts/Readings: Students are responsible for responding in a timely manner to any texts, Facebook messages or any other forms of contact they receive from other students in the class. Failure to do so could result in awkward social interactions throughout the semester.

Participation and Attendance: Students are required to participate in at least one social event each week but are encouraged to engage with other students more than that to improve their overall grade in the course. These interactions can range from dates to formals to weekend parties. Attendance at all events must be confirmed by a non-biased party and photographic evidence of attendance via Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, etc. is suggested.

Journaling: Each week students are required to journal their experiences for that week. This includes any conversations they had with other romantic interests, any social events they attended with said interests and their overall thoughts on the status of their personal life.

Papers: There will be no exams in this class, but rather students are required to write a three papers over the course of the semester as well as a final paper, detailing what they have learned from their experiences.

Grading: Overall grades in this class will be determined on a point scale. Papers and journals have fixed point values while different social interactions have both positive and negative point values associated with them depending on the outcome. Positive experiences refer to anything that increases the student’s satisfaction, results in increased contact or general satisfaction. Negative interactions are anything that result in awkwardness, loss of a relationship, feelings of confusion or general regret. Each student is allowed to drop their lowest hook-up to help increase their average. Only one hook-up can be dropped per semester.

Points Possible

Papers 100

Weekly Journals 25

Basic Interactions (Conversations, Dates, Meetings in which romantic partner is present) +/- 5

Intermediate Interactions (One-on-One Conversations, Invites to Parties, etc.) +/- 10

Hook-Ups +/- 25