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."

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