CHID 250 C: Special Topics: Introduction to the History of Ideas

VLPA ZOMBIES AND OTHERS: THE POST- APOCALYPTIC IMAGINATION THIS CLASS WILL FOCUS PRIMARILY ON SECULAR IMAGININGS OF THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT FROM THE LATE TWENTIETH AND EARLY TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY. WE WILL INTERROGATE HOW THE POST-APOCALYPTIC IMAGINATION CAN BOTH ENDORSE POLITICAL APATHY AND FOMENT POLITICAL RESISTANCE. AND FINALLY, WE WILL BE SURE TO BEEF UP OUR ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE KITS!