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Durham University offers a course that will focus on the world of Harry Potter. Expelliarmus!
No, you wont get the lessons that are offered at Hogwarts or be sorted into a house.
- The content will explore a number of key themes, including:
- Home and away: the shock of education
- Post-1945 as the Age of Illusion
- Harry Potter and the remaking of England
- Welcome to Hogwarts: the commodification of education. The sign replaces the thing - a reassuring world of uniforms, gowns and rituals
- Gryffindor and Slytherin: prejudice and intolerance in the classroom
- Anarchy and rebellion from Tom Brown to Harry Potter
- Myths and models: the power of educational examples
- Muggles and magic: the escape from the treadmill and the recovery of enchantment.
- Magic, reason and reality
- The peer group: bullying, friendship and solidarity
- Ideals of manhood: courage, ingenuity and integrity
- ‘My station and its duties’: Harry Potter and the good citizen
- The moral universe of the school. J.K. Rowling and the legacy of the school story from Rudyard Kipling to Grange Hill
I wonder if the professor will come to class in robes. This is a serious college class, what am I making jokes for. They will probably have a field trip to the Wizarding World Of Harry Potter! Im off to that college. Later muggles!
Via GuardianUK/girlstalknsmack/proprofs
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