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Sorry fans. You can't major in Muggle Studies. Yet. But you can find the world's most favoritest boy wizard popping up in college classrooms and textbooks, says CNN. Says the report: Philip Nel, author of "J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide" and professor of children's literature at Kansas State University, started teaching the books in 2002. "Harry Potter is unfairly maligned simply because of the audience for which it is intended. Children's literature is literature, and if people don't agree with that definition, it's sort of hard to have a conversation with them," Nel said. "They see things that ... are easily accessible as therefore not serious and therefore not worthy of serious inquiry."
Although Yale's course is its first Harry Potter-themed offering, other universities, including Georgetown University, Liberty University, Pepperdine University, Stanford University, Lawrence University, Swarthmore and Kansas State University, also have integrated the series into their curricula. Ah, academia. I am sure that an MBA with an emphasis in Dilbert is just around the corner. (Props to Holly Warren for the link.) |
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