i want a class on hp that would be awesome :-))

if this trickles down to my college im taking it for sure

I want to get my honors college to have a HP course before I graduate. Students get to pitch ideas for courses, so it may actually happen!

That actually looks like a hard class.

I should graduate from college and then go back to school just for this though….:D

This is a fantastic idea! The Harry Potter stories have so much to offer and it is great that someone who has read deep into the series will be showing others and teaching them about the most fantastic amazing series ever!!! I hope that other Universities will be offering this course in the near future!

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Hmm, I’m not exactly sure what to think of this yet. Of course it would intriguing to basically discuss the Harry Potter books but is it all in excess? Still it does seem rather interesting, very.

The class sounds amazing. It is quite amazing to me the way JKR has touched on so many universal themes in her novels about Harry Potter. She really understands the world she has created, and that world is definitely rooted in ours, with its attendant ills and virtues.

If some of you don’t learn to spell and write properly, you will never get into college.

cooooollllll!!!! i want to take an HP course in university when i go!!!! i havent heard of this topic before with HP but it still sounds awesome!

haha! do you see a class about twilight? noooo….. what does this tell us??

I actually go to Durham uni and do Education which is offering this course. I really, really wanted to do it but I couldn’t fit it into my timetable. As much as I adore Harry Potter I had to take the modules that would suit my future career. Fingers crossed I can fit it into my timetable for next year as I really want to do it. Martin (who runs the course) said that one of the potential exam question would be “How is Durham like Hogwarts?” I’m starting to think that I should stuff thinking about my future and just enjoy the course. I could always change when we go back in October.

@ Anna Weasley. The course if definitely not just going to be sit down and discuss the books. It is a second year course (which can also be taken by 3rd years) so we have already had a year (or two) at uni. One of the first year modules is History of Education (also taught by Martin who is teaching the HP course). So we can use what we have learnt in that to compare with the world of HP. The books are just going to be a basis which of course means that we will discuss them but it is not just a course on Harry Potter. Other literature such as Tom Brown’s Schooldays will be compared and contrasted. The main issues will be the ideas of prejudice, identity, culture and bullying etc. We will look at HP as one source of these principles. Look at me, I’m saying we as if I’m enrolled on the course. Somehow I can see me switching when I go back after the summer.

If anyone has any questions on it you could always send me a message and I can try to answer them.