Lessons from 'The Walking Dead'
Lessons from 'The Walking Dead'
- October 14, 2013
- Joanne Christopherson, social sciences lecturer, is featured in Coast Magazine October 14, 2013
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From Coast Magazine:
The Walking Dead returned to AMC for its fourth season. The horror drama has become
so popular that the University of California, Irvine, in association with AMC and
Instructure, is offering a free eight-week course on the series… The course was initiated
by Instructure, an educational technology company, who approached AMC with an idea
about offering an online course based on their hit series. AMC loved the idea and
began to look for a university to host the class and eventually found the University
of California, Irvine. Joanne Christopherson, a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences
and associate director of the Demographic and Social Analysis M.A. program at UCI
is one of the course professors. She said she was interested in teaching the class
not only because she loves the show, but because she sees real issues in the show
that we can all learn from.
For the full story, please visit http://www.coastmagazine.com/articles/walkingdead-2727--.html.
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