‘The Walking Dead’ Zombie Apocalypse Survival Online Course Offered By AMC & UC Irvine

If you want to be able to survive the zombie apocalypse, this course that's being offered online by AMC and UC Irvine could help! It's an 8 week course for the hypothetical zombie apocalypse through the eyes of The Walking Dead. Check out the details...Oh and it's FREE!

From The Wrap:

The free, eight-week online course will be taught from the concentrations of public health, social sciences, physics and mathematics

AMC Network and the University of California, Irvine are teaming up to offer a course on a hypothetical zombie apocalypse as seen through the lens of “The Walking Dead.”

The free, eight-week online course is titled “Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead.’” It will be hosted on Instructure’s MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform, Canvas Network, and taught by a multidisciplinary team of UC Irvine faculty.

“‘The Walking Dead’ provides many poignant case studies related to the scholarly areas covered in the course, and it helps that it’s one of TV’s most popular shows, Bic said in a statement. “There will be something for everyone in this course, which will explore concepts as varied as post-disaster nutrition, the foundations of human survival and stereotypes in a Darwinian environment.”

 

So, are you gonna take it?