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“The Walking Dead” Course on Hypothetical
Zombie Apocalypse Offered by AMC & UC Irvine
美國AMC電視將與加州大學歐文分校一起開設《陰屍路》課程，探討假設性的殭屍末日
The free, eight-week online course
will be taught from the concentrations of public health, social sciences,
physics and mathematics.
該課程為其8周，學費全免，課程內容將涵蓋一連串的學門，如公共健康、社會科學、物理學、數學。
AMC Network (American Movie Classics) and the University of California,
Irvine (加州大學歐文分校) are teaming up to offer a course
on a hypothetical zombie apocalypse as seen through the lens of “The Walking
Dead.”
美國AMC電視和加州大學歐文分校將合作開設一門課，討論假設性的殭屍末日，所使用的文本就是膾炙人口的《陰屍路》影集。
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.
8周課程的全名為”社會、科學、生存：AMC《陰屍路》的啟發”。此課程將會由鹽城湖的教育機構Instructure負責，開設於該公司的免費線上課程平台Canvas Network，師資則是加州分校負責，由跨學科團隊的老師執教。
“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.”
《陰屍路》提供很多很深刻的案例研究，跟課程中諸多的學科都有關係，而且該影集也非常受大眾喜愛，會幫助修課者對於知識上的理解。每個人都能在課程中有所獲益，因為課程會探討很多的議題，例如災後的營養學、人類生存基礎、達爾文主義的刻板印象等。
    “The Walking Dead” is the most-watched TV series in basic cable history
and was the No. 1 show last season among adults 18 to 49, across all broadcast
and cable networks.
《陰屍路》是目前美國有線電視網收視率最高的影集，上一季收視排名第一，觀眾的年齡從18歲到49歲，在所有有線電視頻道中表現最為亮眼。
 The first class is scheduled
for Monday, Oct. 14, the day after the show’s Season 4 premiere. The
course will run for eight consecutive Mondays through Dec. 2.
第一堂課預計10月14日星期一上線，也就是第四季首映的隔天上課。課程將在之後每週一繼續，連續8周，12月2日課程結束。

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