Northern Illinois University offers “Game of Thrones” course

Northern Illinois University is offering a course this semester on the HBO series Game of Thrones. The University Honors Program calls the class “Game of Thrones, Television and Medieval History” and students can take the course for honors credit, The (DeKalb) Daily Chronicle reported. The popular cable TV show, based on books by George R.R. Martin, is in its fifth season. “It represents aspects of the Middle Ages much more realistically than other media depictions that purport to be more…