Rumor: UC Berkeley students offer StarCraft class

the real story: War Games taught at peacenik school.

Berkeley is a public school. But the tuition in of itself is on the private school level. School can teach whatever they student is willing to pay for. And you tax dollars don't pay for this - they fund the loans which the students pay back. There are MANY obtuse electives kids can take. Why hate on this one?

Professor: "Ok class, please clear your tables... we'll be having a pop quiz today..."

Class: "OMG ZERG RUSH!!!"

Professor: "gg".

This is a "DeCal," folks. Not a class. It's more like a student club. They cost next to no money to run, and are really just an excuse for students to get together and bull about something they all like.

If anyon is interested in the story, here is the full one:


http://www.starcraftwire.net/blog/comments/study-starcraft-for-college/


They will post the interview with the course facilitator soon as well...

Graduating on the 4-year plan was such a mistake. If I'd have known this was coming I would have kept to the 10-year plan the rest of the student body was working off of.

"And I went to the University of Central Florida where a degree that gets you work just fine costs as much as half a semester at UC Berkley. After you get your first job, where you went to school no longer has any bearing on the rest of your career. That's $80,000 + books blown for something I got for $10,000 and still rolled right out of college into a $50k/year job and a huge ladder for potential.

The reason it costs that much is because UC Berkley wastes a TON of money on administration and worthless classes. With rising tuition costs, just how can they possibly justify a StarCraft class? They can't. That tells me that the ranking in your link is bogus because they don't even know how not to waste taxpayer and student money on bullshit projects."

Sounds like you're more bitter about getting rejected from Berkeley during the application process than anything, lol.

This class is not a waste of resources, at all. The only thing that's being used up are the time of the graduate students or upperclassmen teaching the course and the electricity used to power the computer lab. Can't people have some fun and experiment in a college setting? I mean, that's the whole point of an education, is to try new things and learn from your experiences.

The syllabus actually sounds pretty legit. Read more about the student perspective here: http://campus.ology.com/2009/02/03/a-computer-nerds-wet-dream/