15 Minutes of Fame: WoW 101 — yes, WoW for college credit

“Warcraft: Culture, Gender and Identity,” a credit-awarding class being offered at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. At the helm of this innovative course is Landon Pirius, Ph.D., also known as Nodnal the Gnome Warrior of Blackwater Raiders-US. No stranger to the convergence of WoW and academia, Dr. Pirius wrote his doctoral dissertation on “Massively Multiplayer Online Virtual Environments: A Potential Locale for Intercultural Training.”

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