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  • smorris
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2003
    • 695
    • Tampa, Florida, USA.

    #1

    Your tuition dollars at work when the kids go to college

    BALTIMORE – Call it Zombies 101.

    The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead.

    The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, "Zombiemania," and the curator of Geppi's Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture.

    Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. As an alternative to a final research paper they may write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks.

    The university isn't the first to have a class on the undead. Columbia College in Chicago has offered a course on Zombies in popular media for years, and at Simpson College in Iowa students spent the spring semester writing a book on "The History of the Great Zombie War."
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  • Cochese
    Veteran Member
    • Jun 2010
    • 1988

    #2
    Hey, gotta fill those elective hours somehow.
    I have a little blog about my shop

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    • Stytooner
      Roll Tide RIP Lee
      • Dec 2002
      • 4301
      • Robertsdale, AL, USA.
      • BT3100

      #3
      I took a similar class that was full of Zombies. It was called Calculus.
      Lee

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      • herb fellows
        Veteran Member
        • Apr 2007
        • 1867
        • New York City
        • bt3100

        #4
        Isn't it fitting that the brain dead should study the undead?

        i mean, I took bowling, I suppose it's no worse than that as far as being productive, but somehow.....
        You don't need a parachute to skydive, you only need a parachute to skydive twice.

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        • LinuxRandal
          Veteran Member
          • Feb 2005
          • 4890
          • Independence, MO, USA.
          • bt3100

          #5
          Uhm, and they get convinced, to take loans, to go study this stuff?
          She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice.

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          • MilDoc

            #6
            Originally posted by LinuxRandal
            Uhm, and they get convinced, to take loans, to go study this stuff?
            Wow. I guess that might help if you want to be a mortician. So many "fun" but useless classes for future employment anymore. No wonder international students are winning in tests and taking high ed jobs away from us.

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            • Kristofor
              Veteran Member
              • Jul 2004
              • 1331
              • Twin Cities, MN
              • Jet JTAS10 Cabinet Saw

              #7
              I took all of my real classes early and let some of the BS LibEd requirements (required even if you were in the Institute of Technology, or Biz School) slide until the end.

              My second to last class was an American Studies (aka Dump on All Things American) because it was a triple banger. I would have MUCH preferred to take Zombie 101...

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              • jackellis
                Veteran Member
                • Nov 2003
                • 2638
                • Tahoe City, CA, USA.
                • BT3100

                #8
                When I attended the North Avenue Trade School, it was all business, or rather all about engineering. We were required to take a certain number of liberal arts electives, but (at least as far as I remember) they had substance.

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