Posted on 09/07/2010 9:06:51 AM PDT by markomalley
Arnold Blumberg plops the zombie head on a table at the front of the small theater.
"I brought a friend," says the University of Baltimore professor, clad in an unbuttoned black shirt adorned with red skulls.
Blumberg is meeting his class for the first time and it seems appropriate that he greet them beside "old Worm Eye," undead star of the 1979 Italian cult film "Zombi 2."
It was Worm Eye's decaying visage that called to a young Blumberg from the shelf of a Randallstown video store in the 1980s. Without him, maybe Blumberg wouldn't be here today, teaching a new generation about his favorite movie monster.
Zombies are everywhere these days. Last year they hit the best-seller list in a bizarre mash-up with Jane Austen called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." They have inspired math professors to devise statistical models for surviving a "zombie apocalypse." This fall, they'll star in the AMC TV series "The Walking Dead."
And now, they're the subject of a new course, otherwise known as English 333, at the University of Baltimore.
"Zombies are one of the most potent, direct reflections of what we're thinking moment to moment in our culture," Blumberg tells the class in explaining why they're all here.
Students will watch 16 classic zombie films (including "Zombi 2," in which a zombie fights a shark), read zombie comics and, as an alternative to a final research paper, have the chance to write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Question: How many zombies do you have to have in the car in order to drive in the HOV lanes?
Just wondering.
Oh that should help those students go out, make a good living and strengthen our society. But then, again, they are in Maryland.
Is this taught by Comic Book Guy?? Worst Class EVER!
The Learning Annex has stepped up their tuition and changed their name I guess.
No doubt employers will really be impressed with this credential on a trasncript.
LOL! The zombie apocalypse thing is, actually, sort of useful in modeling various disasters, especially those of epidemic nature. Plus, it’s a great excuse to buy ammo. (Like you need one?)
I don’t think the law makes reference to the number of living persons in the car, just the total number of persons.
I don't think that they have to be actually in the car.
The study of zombies, the voting dead and other brainless stumblers is a great idea for a political science class... not so much for an English class though.
Fast Zombies Suck!
On a tall,strikingly beautiful, blue/green haired beach Siren.
Best t-shirt I’ve seen in many moons.
“And our tax dollars are paying for it...”
More practical than Womens’ Studies at least.
Another one.
Beam us up, Scotty - there’s no intelligent life here.
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