Have young people forgotten how to date? New film sets them a challenge

Going out on dates to get extra credit might sound like an easy way to boost your grade in professor Kerry Cronin’s class at Jesuit-run Boston College.

But the extra-credit assignment is a serious attempt to help college students understand what dating really is and the need to develop meaningful relationships in a day and age when the “hookup culture,” slang for brief sexual encounters, has become prominent on college campuses and in society at large.

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