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University Of Baltimore Offers Course In Zombie Studies - baltimoresun.com

This class looks like all kinds of awesome. I'm pretty students who pass it will be hot commodities WHEN the zombies attack.

Are they going to do fieldwork in Haiti? Or is it just another pop culture easy A?

That is about five flavours of awesome with a garnish of cool. And brains. All we get are classes on US gun culture and English folk dances - in separate classes of course. Although it would be cool to combine the two... a Morris dancer with a Glock... *rambles on*

IronBrig4 said:

University Of Baltimore Offers Course In Zombie Studies - baltimoresun.com

This class looks like all kinds of awesome. I'm pretty students who pass it will be hot commodities WHEN the zombies attack.

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this is fucking stupid.
watch films and read comics? final research paper for this english class can be storyboards for a MOVIE? this doesn't even sound like a good film history/theory/production class.

Ah. Higher Education.

I guess you gotta waste mom and dads money on something.

Hey, post-secondary, zombies aren't real, spoiler alert.

I had a high school class that sounds like this. Lots of people went in thinking they'd just be watching movies and doing no work. When the professor had us doing essays on fictional time travel, there were a lot of F's in the class.

I have a feeling there's more to the workload of this class than meets the eye (or will be advertised, so there will be some suckers). That said, it doesn't sound like a subject with the kind of breadth a college course should have.

Gusto said:

Hey, post-secondary, zombies aren't real, spoiler alert.

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Wade Davis would disagree.

There isn't much in that article about the actual workload, grading, discussed topics, lectures (or not as the case may be), or the intent of the class.

It really could be anything from a throwaway A for zombie geeks to a serious writing class about the narrative structure and exploration of themes behind post-apocalyptic fiction.

Sounds like a pile of shit waste of money that in no way prepares you for any sort of future career or path. In other words, it's 90% of college.

SpecialKO said:

There isn't much in that article about the actual workload, grading, discussed topics, lectures (or not as the case may be), or the intent of the class.

It really could be anything from a throwaway A for zombie geeks to a serious writing class about the narrative structure and exploration of themes behind post-apocalyptic fiction.

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agreed, but I am wary the final 'paper' can be a story board of a movie. To me this does not accurately reflect a students understanding of narrative structure, as much as display common visual themes which is not really related.

P.S. zombies aren't a virus.
P.P.S. 28 days later is not full of zombies.

This actually makes sense for Baltimore, where much of the city, including its inhabitants, resemble the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.

A friend of mine did a class called 'Jesus in Film' which was one of here hardest classes in uni.

Another one did Disney and Religion which was quite heavy on essay writing.

Bothh though they were doing an easy course to 'round out' their work load for the year. They were wrong.

I can see how this course could be tough. When they watch the first Dawn of the Dead, they might have to write about how the American public perceived the military and police in the late 70s. There's a lot of social trends at work in Romero's zombie films.

In the same vein, I might eventually teach a history reading seminar on comic books and how they relate to US social history. There's a lot of material to work with there. Superman and Batman comics display contrasting views of urbanization and highlight government corruption (especially in Batman's case). Luke Cage probably has enough to write a dissertation about race relations. Captain America is pretty much a walking historiography of wartime and post-war America. The Fantastic 4, Ant-Man, and Iron Man series all started off as optimistic super-science vehicles a la Jonny Quest. Wait, hold that thought... I just got an idea for an article.

For the record, the course might be very hard. It still looks dumb on your transcript.

I did a course in Comics & Cartoons a few years ago. It wound up being one of the hardest damn courses I've taken, save for James Joyce (fuck you, Ulysses!). The prof was one of those ridiculously hard markers and expected a lot from his students at a 2000 level.