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From learning about social identities to nutrition in a post-apocalyptic world, a new eight week course covers everything you need to know to survive a ZOMBIE invasion.

And four college lecturers have used TV series The Walking Dead as inspiration for the bizarre online classes.

Rather than focusing on subjects to prepare students for a realistic future, The University of California Irvine seems more intent on preparing for an apocalypse.

Named 'Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC's The Walking Dead', the course uses scenes from the hit TV show for its classes and the eccentric lecturers interviewed cast members in preparation.

If you've ever wanted to mix physics with fiction then this course teaches everything from the role of energy and momentum in damage control to managing stress in disaster situations.

You may get behind in your Maths and English, but you'll be the one your friends call on if they open their curtains in the morning and see dead people roaming the streets.

Mathematics lecturer Sarah Eichorn said: "There's kind of something for everyone in the class. I think for all four of us, it's an opportunity to get students interested and aware in our fields.

"I never expected to be recording lecture videos where I'm talking about decapitating people in my mathematics lecture."