In the age of the Internet, some college students may have grown up without learning the art of dating, enter Kerry Cronin's Boston College seminar on the subject.

According to the Boston Globe, Cronin's seminar is meant for juniors and seniors with the objective of exploring relationships, intimacy and spirituality. She originally gave extra credit to anyone who went on a date, but made it mandatory after only one of 15 students took her up on it.

She said she began giving lectures on campus hookup culture eight years ago and got the idea for a dating seminar that way. She said one person in particular asker her "How would you ask someone on a date?... Like, the actual words."

She told the Globe she had been nervous that the student was going to ask her a potentially controversial question on sex or intimacy. The next academic year, she started the seminar and the following year dates became a mandatory class assignment.

Dave Griffin, a student in this semester's seminar, told the Globe he would have asked the girl he most recently went on a date with regardless. He did not tell her why he asked her out, but the two had a cup of coffee and a croissant at a local Starbucks. Griffin also asked her on a second date.

Cronin said she has noticed how modern technology has altered the way young people interact and the "hookup culture" is an example of a lack of intimacy and unwillingness to commit. At least, that is the way one of Cronin's students sees it.

"The idea behind the hookup culture is that these are our 'crazy' and 'independent' years, and dating is too serious or committed," Meaghan Kelliher told the Globe.

Kelliher is in a philosophy class for freshmen and sophomores Cronin teaches that focuses on morals and ethics in dating, but going on a date is an extra credit assignment.

Cronin's method for encouraging interpersonal dating relationships involves a "social script." She said she does not expect her students to court each other like it was the 1940s, but there is a reason why previous generations did it.

"When my parents and grandparents went on dates they knew what to expect," Cronin told the Globe. "That's what a social script is, that's why manners work - not because they're truths but because they make things easier."

She said hanging out in groups, clubbing and talking via social media and texting are all ways to "mediate" a conversation. She pushing students out of their comfort zone makes them feel awkward, but they also come out with a sense of accomplishment.

"They like to push themselves out of their comfort zone only if the energy and effort will equal success,'' Cronin said. "But when asking someone out, nothing can ensure the person is going to say yes."

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