A new “Drag University” program launched at Princeton University will train students in the “artform.”

The program is offered through the school’s Gender + Sexuality Resource Center and is open to all undergraduate and graduate students interested in the world of drag, according to the center’s Instagram page.

Throughout the 2023-24 school year, enrolled participants will cover an array of topics, including the history of drag, “Sewing 101,” choreography, face painting, photoshoots and other topics, according to the program’s registration form.

[On one hand, these are choices made by adults. On the other, though, why is this being treated as an academic form of study? This may surpass the fabled and largely apocryphal “underwater basketweaving” discipline as the best example of corruption and dissipation in Academia. Training drag show performers is at best a trade, not a field of serious academic study. — Ed]