US: Yale University offers new class in clubbing

For many parents, hearing that their child has discovered clubbing and alcohol at university is a terrifying prospect. But now their kids have the perfect excuse: it is for credit, reports the Daily Mail.

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is offering a course in 'nightlife culture' as part of its American Studies programme. It also takes the students on 'field trips' to New York city's nightlife hot spots, including Le Bain and the Boom Boom Room. Simonez Wolf, who masterminded the pop-up club, plans to throw a one-off party at the university to show students how it's done.

"I worry about whether people will think this is serious," Madison Moore, the doctoral student running the class, told Fox News. "But it's not just about getting drunk...It's about the history of it, the Harlem cabarets, understanding race, gender, sex, Prohibition and the law."
Full report on the Daily Mail site