'The Walking Dead' is getting scholarly
'The Walking Dead' is getting scholarly
- September 4, 2013
- Joanne Christopherson, social sciences lecturer, is featured in The Atlantic September 4, 2013
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From The Atlantic:
The Walking Dead is getting academic. AMC, the University of California,t Irvine,
and educational technology company Instructure, announced today that they were collaborating
on an interdisciplinary massive open online course (MOOC) based on the beloved zombie
show. The course does not really deal with minutiae of the show's plot lines, instructor
Sarah Eichhorn told The Atlantic Wire in a phone conversation. Instead, the enrollment
website touts that those who complete the course will be able to "describe how infectious
diseases – like a zombie epidemic – spread and are managed" and "analyze existing
social roles and stereotypes as they exist today and in an emerging world"
For the full story, please visit http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/09/how-walking-dead-ge....
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