美国巴尔的摩大学传播设计学院今年新开了一门研究僵尸的课程，选择这门课的学生将会在老师的带领下欣赏经典的僵尸电影和漫画，在课程结束时无需撰写论文，而要交出一份自己理想中的恐怖电影台词或者绘本。

It is a class to die for - Zombie（僵尸，行尸走肉） studies is now on the curriculum（课程） at the University of Baltimore.

The new course, which promises to "get you ready for a zombie apocalypse（启示） ", invites students to devour¹（凝视，吞食） classic zombie films and comics.

Instead of essays, they write horror scripts（原稿，手稿） or draw storyboards for their ideal monster movie.

The minor² class, titled English 333, has already been dubbed³ "Zombie 101" by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

It was introduced to meet a demand for "interesting, off-the-wall" courses for a new minor in pop culture, according to Jonathan Shorr, chairman of the university's school of communications design.

"It's a back door into a lot of subjects," he told the Baltimore Sun.

"They think they're taking this wacko（古怪的，发疯的） zombie course, and they are. But on the way, they learn how literature and mass media work, and how they come to reflect our times."

However, horror fans will be pleased to find that the class also explores two less academic themes: "blood and guts⁴".

"We're going to be dealing⁵ with some of the truly disgusting stuff that's been done in horror over the years," said Arnold Blumberg, author of Zombiemania, who teaches the course.

"I want to reinforce the degree to which this material can be found offensive by a lot of people.

"This is not fluffy⁶（蓬松的） bunny（兔子，可爱女郎） cartoon stuff. Bunnies might show up, but they'd probably be torn to pieces."