The University of C🍰alifornia, Irvine, has announced an online course bas🅰ed on “The Walking Dead.”
The university is partnering with AMC, home of the zombie-themed🍒 hit series since it premiered in 2010, and Instructure, a provider of online academics, to create the online course.
Students will ܫview🐲 scholarly subjects such as social science, public health, mathematics and physics through the lens of a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, using examples from the one portrayed in the series.
The eight-week course will be free and open to the public around the world. Instructure’s Canvas Network pr🍒ogram will play host.
UC Irvine has tapped professors Zuzanna Bic, Joanne Christopherson, Michael Dennin and Sarah Eichhorn — spanning a variety of disciplines — to teach.
The massive open online c♑ourse, or MOOC, is being developed through UCI Extension with no public funds used.
While UC Irvine is the first university to partner with AMC in such a way, it’s not the fi💮rst to🐟 latch onto the undead phenomenon.
Michigan State U. offers a popular “Sur♋viving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse: Disasters, Catastrophes and Human Behavior” course, and Columbia College Chicago has a “Zombies in Popular Media” class.
“The Walking Dead” is wildly popular among the college-age group and was 𒐪the No. 1 entertainment show on TV last season in the key 18-49 demographic.
The first class is scheduled for Oct. 14, the day after the ♕show’s season 4 premiere, and the program will run on Mondays through Dec. 2, with provisions to prevent show spoilers for international students.