University offers master’s degree in what it takes to be a man

By Barbara J. Berg. Michael Kimmel stood in front of a classroom in blue jeans and a blazer with a pen to a whiteboard. “What does it mean,” the 64-year-old sociology professor asked the group, most of them undergraduates, “to be a good man?” The students looked puzzled. “Let’s say it was said at your funeral: ‘He was a good man,’ ” Kimmel explained. More...