UC Irvine scares up a 'Walking Dead' online course
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UC Irvine scares up a 'Walking Dead' online course
- September 5, 2013
- Joanne Christopherson, social sciences lecturer, is featured in the Los Angeles Times September 5, 2013
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.
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-walking-dea....
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