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Quartz
01-28-2009, 12:46 AM
Students in UC - Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits.

This course will go in-depth in the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game Starcraft.

http://www.tumeroks.com/starcraft-course-opened-for-college-earn-credits/
MaD_SheF
01-28-2009, 02:12 AM
no way!
monsooNkg
01-28-2009, 02:35 AM
Well I know where I'm going to college! Maybe one the 1.6 players should teach at Berkely...

Professor Marcus "zet" Sundstrom, I can see it now...
AlbeL
01-28-2009, 04:17 AM
A course in WoW? Yeah if your career plan involves never leaving the house and have no life.
smont
01-28-2009, 07:12 AM
wow i need some help in starcraft ill go check it out :D
SeizeTheDay
01-28-2009, 08:02 AM
I would ACE THAT SHIT. and they should do this with more games :)
geno
01-28-2009, 11:40 AM
A course in WoW? Yeah if your career plan involves never leaving the house and have no life.

rofl. +1
tgchan
01-28-2009, 12:10 PM
jesus fcking christ why I didn't have that kind of choice
Kallozar
01-28-2009, 07:05 PM
ya im going to Berkeley and my friend's friend is the guy teaching the course...ill make sure to sign up for the class and pwn sum crazy koreans in the face with zerg
c0k3
01-28-2009, 09:32 PM
wow, an easy A.
mcdoomington
01-29-2009, 11:45 PM
I actually wrote an article about this for Tom's Hardware
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/StarCraft-Blizzard-Education-berkeley-class,news-3389.html

Offering the class is definitely refreshing, but it should be noted that this is a class organized by students. The PR dept. made it sound like obtaining credit for the class was not an option, and that is was more "for fun". The class was formed in conjunction with DECAL (Democratic Education for CAL), which allows students to organize and run their own classes.
onesix
01-30-2009, 12:27 AM
I want that class.
Monk
01-30-2009, 02:56 AM
wow... that is quite possibly the greatest class i've ever heard of haha! nice find.
FaZ-
02-09-2009, 12:39 AM
This isn't quite the "easy A" that most of you are thinking of. The course syllabus claims to explore mathematics up to and including Differential Equations. It's being taught by a Sophomore undergraduate Physics major in some sort of special class for minimal credit. They're allowing anyone to enter both the Lecture and the Lab (Read: LAN Party) though and someone taped the first lecture, it's on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XiE_V0PZ8