'Walking Dead' 101: How you can take a free college course on the hit AMC drama
'Walking Dead' 101: How you can take a free college course on the hit AMC drama
- September 4, 2013
- Joanne Christopherson, social sciences lecturer, is featured by Yahoo TV and MTV Geek September 4, 2013
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From Yahoo! TV:
The "WD" course is a joint effort of AMC, UC Irvine, and Instructure, and though
not the first of its kind …"Society, Science, Survival" is the first MOOC where hundreds
of thousands of students are expected to participate in an official TV network-approved
college course…. "I teach undergraduates 18 to 23 years old. I absolutely cannot present
any kind of a class of theories that are 200 or 300 years old without pop culture,"
says UC Irvine professor Joanne Christopherson, who will teach social science issues
in the "WD" course. "They look at me like, 'What does this have to do with my life?'
I absolutely have to bring in pop culture articles, news, TV, magazines, art. I'm
very excited to have something like 'The Walking Dead', a one-source property, one
that's so rich in material and topics."
For the full story, please visit http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/fall-tv/-walking-dead--101--how-you-can-take-a....
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