Study Starcraft for college. Yeah, you read it right, and no, I am NOT kidding! Students in UC - Berkeley can take up StarCraft studies for college credits.

This was the headline and intro for a story on a site that I didn't intend to link to when I saw it, and I'm not going to start now. Of course, it was picked up and passed around as news over the last few days by the usual sites. It feeds neatly into other urban legends about Starcraft (some of which are actually true), and it even has a side dish of "LOL Berkeley!"

What a relief to read from someone who bothered to take a closer look. Troy Goodfellow finally debunks it on his blog.

...this is apparently a DeCal course - a student initiated class in Berkeley's democratic, alternative education program. There are also classes listed in playing outside, Firefly, and Chinese for restaurants. The Starcraft course is nowhere on the official DeCal list, though.