From the LA Times:
Now UC Irvine is hoping that a hit show about a zombie apocalypse can make higher learning about advanced mathematics and other serious academic subjects more palatable. The university and basic cable's AMC network are teaming up to offer a free online course titled "Society, Science, Survival: Lessons From AMC's 'The Walking Dead'" timed to the airing of the show's fourth season this fall… "We're expecting hundreds of thousands to enroll in this," said Melissa Loble, associate dean of distance learning at UCI. "There's a lot of 'Walking Dead' fans." UC Irvine mathematics professor Sarah Eichhorn, who plans to use her subject of expertise to model how the "walker" disease would behave as it propagates, is thrilled at the prospect of reaching a much wider student audience.

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