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Ah, zombies.  You’re everywhere these days, and with the excellent zombie comic book The Walking Dead going to AMC, it’s only going to get better (at least for people like me, who’ll watch a bad zombie movie over a good vampire movie any day of the week).  Now, the zombie virus is spreading from popular culture into pop culture classes, as the University of Baltimore has turned their English 333 course into a class on zombies in pop culture.

It sounds like child’s play, and it could be a lot of fun for kids, but it’ll also be a lot of work.  The course is being offered by Dr. Arnold Blumberg, the author of Zombiemania and curator of Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.  The coursework requires students to watch 16 different zombie movies, read zombie comics and literature, and of course, do multiple research papers along the way.  There’s always a fun option for the final project, which can either be a thesis paper or can be a zombie script/series of zombie storyboards for the ideal zombie movie.  (Now that sounds like a blast!)

Academics, meet entertainment!  Yes, that’s exactly what the zombies want; educate your brains before offering them up for eating, because smart brains are richer-tasting brains.

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