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Publication: Brookhaven Courier, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch TX.
By Jubenal Aguilar
Staff Writer
Illustration by Sophia Espinosa
"Zombies Ate My Term Paper" English 1302 professor gives course a bloodcurdling, zombie-themed twist.
The zombie phenomenon continues its spread into fields beyond film and literature. The academic realm, once a safe zone, has felt the effect with a growing number of professors willing to embrace the undead way of life in their classrooms. At Brookhaven College, adjunct faculty Elizabeth Alewine teaches Zombies Ate My Term Paper, an English 1302 course with a focus on the living dead. The course has been offered at Brookhaven since the spring of 2010.
She is among professors at several universities, such as Columbia College, Rice University, Georgia Institute of Technology, San Diego State University and the University of Baltimore, offering programs or curricula based on the undead.
The idea for the course came in the fall of 2010 when Alewine was teaching at Brookhaven and Collin College, which requires students to complete lab assignments. Alewine said she needed a way to convince students to complete the "busy work" and noticed that zombies were all the rage at the time.
From this need, a zombie unit arose with several components, including watching a film, conducting research and writing a reflection paper. When the assignments came in, Alewine realized she had stumbled upon...