Zombies take over Baltimore University curriculum
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Posted on: 2010-09-08 16:36 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
The end is nigh.
This sounds like a great idea, actually. It presents a range of subjects in such a way as to hook people into being interested in them. It sounds like they'll have fun with it, too.
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I want that. I'd go back to school if that was offered.
It really does introduce a LOT of other things to the mix: history, sociology, psychology, ballistics...
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The GPA required to take that class has got to be pretty high.
I mean, I am sure they only want BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS
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I'm glad to see a university is preparing it's students for the future.
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From the sound of it, they're only preparing people to write books or make movies about the Great Zombie War after it happens. Maybe someone can convince the university to create a companion course on how to actually survive the inevitable zombie apocalypse; Max Brooks already wrote the perfect textbook for it.
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Originally Posted by Inazuma
I'm glad to see a university is preparing it's students for the future.
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Well that is why we smart people already have our Zombie Apocalypse escape plan.
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Okay, I'm not a zombie fan, but I teach at this school. Why the heck wasn't I notified about this, and why are they not having me do a guest lecture about "Tax Controversy and the Zombie Apocalypse?"
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it's fun to see this make the kind of cultural and academic inroads that little green men have had for sometime. in some ways zombie fiction has really allowed a certain spin on survivalism that we haven't seen much of since the height of the cold war.
I've actually found it really useful as a training tool in some of my own work (disaster/emergency mngmnt) that is otherwise as dry as choking down sawdust after eating sand. especially front end training where getting someone to read an emergency procedure manual is difficult at best, knowledge retention goes up by well over 60% after 3 months.
the dry runs are always classic when something like a hotel tour happens upon first aid training day. ; p
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Unfortunately the chances of a "Zombie" outbreak happening is rather slim to say the least lol.
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Originally Posted by UltraTroll
Well that is why we smart people already have our Zombie Apocalypse escape plan.
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I had lots of fun classes like that when I was in college. I'm just surprised it's an English class rather than a film studies class. There's not much zombie literature.
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Originally Posted by Pouncer
I had lots of fun classes like that when I was in college. I'm just surprised it's an English class rather than a film studies class. There's not much zombie literature.
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I'm tempted to see if they'll let me audit this thing, just to see if the professor or anyone in the course has picked up on the threads of zombie stories that make me dislike them so much.
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I have a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit course this year. Our final project can be pretty much anything we can think of within those genres (including modern fantasy or horror). I'm leaning toward short story.
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Zombies take over Baltimore University curriculum
A woman dressed up as a zombie participates in the "Zombie walk" through central Stockholm Horror fans are expected to be drawn by the course
It is a class to die for - Zombie studies is now on the curriculum at the University of Baltimore.
The new course, which promises to "get you ready for a zombie apocalypse", invites students to devour classic zombie films and comics.
Instead of essays, they write horror scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal monster movie.
The minor class, titled English 333, has already been dubbed "Zombie 101" by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
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They think they're taking this wacko zombie course... but on the way they learn how literature and mass media work
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It was introduced to meet a demand for "interesting, off-the-wall" courses for a new minor in pop culture, according to Jonathan Shorr, chairman of the university's school of communications design.
'Truly disgusting'
"It's a back door into a lot of subjects," he told the Baltimore Sun.
"They think they're taking this wacko zombie course, and they are. But on the way, they learn how literature and mass media work, and how they come to reflect our times."
However, horror fans will be pleased to find that the class also explores two less academic themes: "blood and guts".
"We're going to be dealing with some of the truly disgusting stuff that's been done in horror over the years," said Arnold Blumberg, author of Zombiemania, who teaches the course.
"I want to reinforce the degree to which this material can be found offensive by a lot of people.
"This is not fluffy bunny cartoon stuff. Bunnies might show up, but they'd probably be torn to pieces.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11219411