About a week ago StarCraftWire.net reported that UC Berkeley had announced a college StarCraft course. Yes, you read that correctly, a college course that offers credits to play StarCraft.
Well I for one didn’t believe it at first, but Leord at StarCraftWire.net said he was going to interview the instructor of the course and get the story straight from the creator’s mouth. He in fact did, and apparently the class has gotten quite a bit of media attention since Leord first broke the story.
Many gamers have shown an interest in the course and it turned out that instead of 40 odd expected pupils, Mr Feng, the Course Facilitator, got attendance up over his elbows. The course became very popular: every single seat in the 120 seat lecture hall was taken, and there was another 30 odd people left standing.
-StarCraftWire.net
In fact, GamePro's own Justin Lewis attended the first class and brought a video camera with him to document just how popular this course has become. Lewis also had a few minutes to speak with Feng about his background and what this class is all about. Check out that video and Lewis' thoughts on the first class after the jump.
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Read about this awesome course and StarCraftWire.net's interview with the course instructor HERE.
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