Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock(HAMILTON, N.Y.) — Colgate University is doing its part in the national campaign to end sexual violence on college campuses.
The idea is one that might catch on elsewhere because students who take a seminar on sexual consent can use those credits toward the school’s Phys Ed requirements.
During the class, which meets for six weeks per semester, students are assigned to read and discuss Jessica Valenti’s book, Yes Means Yes!, which means that both people give conscious and voluntary consent to having sex. At the completion of the course, each student must expound on an ideal sexual climate on campus.
Although the Yes Means Yes seminar is referred to as an extracurricular program, its purpose is particularly serious. And for Colgate students, a relatively painless way to get out of Phys Ed for one semester.
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