In Darren Blakeborough’s latest course, Zombies on the Brain: Popular Culture & the Living Dead, he uses cultural objects as teaching examples to open up “the same theories by the same dead old white guys.”
Blakeborough sees the true value of this approach as the way it makes those otherwise drier concepts more accessible to students.
Compared against zombie representations, ideas like race, gender, identity, war, capitalism, and immigration become engaging.
See the full Chilliwack Times story on this topic here:
11/03/2015