From the OC Register:
It's time to put caps and gowns on those hordes of shuffling zombies that crave human flesh. UC Irvine is offering a free online course on the popular AMC television show “The Walking Dead,” bringing academic rigor to the zombie apocalypse. Each Monday, instructors specializing in fields from physics to social science will dissect the previous night's show for insights into disease, human behavior and perhaps even the ballistic properties of zombie brains. “The fact is, the majority of the show is dialogue, not zombies,” said UCI lecturer Joanne Christopherson, who will handle the social science part of the course. “I'm very fascinated with how they behave when they're under threat, and then how they behave when they're safe.”

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