Zombies Invade Academia

Even colleges are getting into the act with zombies.

According to the Los Angles Times (Sept. 5, 2013), UC Irvine is teaming up with the AMC Network, home of “The Walking Dead,” to offer a free online course called “Society, Science, Survival:  Lessons from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead.’”  The eight-week course starts Oct. 14 and will offer lectures about aspects of the show that are related to social science, physics, public health, and mathematics.

UCI is expecting hundreds of thousands of students to enroll in the course.  Applicants are encouraged to sign up for the course at www.canvas.net/TWD.

This just goes to show that the zombie phenom is not going away any time soon.  In fact, it shows quite the opposite–that there is an upsurge in the presence of zombies in all aspects of society, and to ignore them would be foolhardy.

The most important thing to know about zombies is how to kill them in order to stop the disease from spreading.  You don’t need a college degree to learn how to do this, but you will learn in this zombie course why it is mathematically important that you kill as many zombies as possible as quickly as possible.