College students today show a preference to be entertained as well as informed. While the debate on whether academia "should" be entertaining continues, this study sought data from one-hundred and fifty-six undergraduates enrolled in four Courtship and Marriage courses at East Carolina University who completed a 24 item questionnaire on their reaction to reading The Dancer's Gift: An Introductory Sociology Novel (Kennedy, Zusman, Schacht and Knox, 2002) as a supplement to the main text (Knox and Schacht, 2002). Over three-fourths of the respondents reported that the novel was both entertaining and instructive. A similar percentage reported that the novel helped them to learn sociology terms/perspective and they recommended that other faculty use the "novel approach." The MapMaker: An Introductory Psychology Novel (Kennedy et al,2002) is also available for psychology courses.