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Post by angel17 on Jul 24, 2005 7:54:14 GMT -5
OKay, i dont know how familiar you all are with colleges across the country but the college across the street from my high school,SRU(Slippery Rock University) started about a year or two ago with Harry Potter science classes. The first attempt brought in 90 ppl! And now as of a few weeks ago elementary and middle schools are beginning to do it too. I think it is a cool idea, what do you all think? Good or Bad?  |
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Post by gemini2121 on Jul 24, 2005 15:35:56 GMT -5
I don't understand what a HP science class is....
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Post by angel17 on Jul 24, 2005 16:14:13 GMT -5
well they "experiment" with "magic" if that makes sense. They do experiments to explain simple things like why things float and invisibility cloaks and things like that. What yhey do is each term/nine weeks/sesmester whatever you want to call it, they use go through one book, though they only use the first four as there are only four terms. and they study that book for the term and do "experiments" and try "explore" the "magical" world
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Post by sassyangel03 on Jul 24, 2005 16:28:37 GMT -5
totally weird...but i'd be right there with em!
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Post by TrishyKay on Jul 24, 2005 16:49:16 GMT -5
:\ I wouldn't go if I had the chance.. I like the magical-ness of magic. I wouldn't want science to ruin it..
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Post by Lauren on Jul 24, 2005 17:04:18 GMT -5
lol i think it would be fun... just to see what its like.
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Post by angel17 on Jul 24, 2005 17:30:47 GMT -5
haha i agree with trishy...science would ruin it...but i also agree with lauren..i would love to attend one just to see what it was like......i called a friend who just re-read the article and she said they are also "explaning" the potions that are used in the books and how they are illusions and couldnt possibly happen...though that would kinda ruin it for me... |
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Post by Lauren on Jul 24, 2005 18:12:42 GMT -5
oh now thats just taking it too far... goodness
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Post by angel17 on Jul 24, 2005 18:51:20 GMT -5
haha yeah i know......but its kind of weird and neat at the same time.....though i would love to see them try to prove something(anything) wrong and find out that it cant be proven wrong and that there is such a thing as magic lol though thats going a little too far too lol
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Post by Lauren on Jul 24, 2005 19:48:33 GMT -5
its a book!!! it doesnt have to be real! omg what dorks! ok.. my outburst is gone.. *starts reading HBP again*
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Post by Hermione_Girl13 on Jul 24, 2005 23:42:55 GMT -5
Thats not cool... HP lovers wouldnt wanna know that its not real! And its gunna be HP lovers who take the class!
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Post by Lauren on Jul 24, 2005 23:44:26 GMT -5
now im all bummed out.. why would they do that.  boy, do i sound bipolar or what lol |
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Post by melimsah on Jul 25, 2005 0:02:50 GMT -5
I choose "what."
A college is offering this? I could see elementary or even a high school doing that, but not a college. Well, really, the thing is if they can find a teacher, they can teach the subject, basically. That's how the Middle Earth languages class, the Philosophy of the Simpsons, and learn-by-experience sex ed classes are born. (okay, that last one is a semi-joke. I remember actually reading about such a class, or maybe it was a club, but it was of course discontinued.)
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Post by angel17 on Jul 25, 2005 9:41:08 GMT -5
haha no lauren you dont sound bipolar lol and it is the HP lovers that take the classes...but why they would want to disprove the books is beyond me....though i must admitt that i would attend at least on class just to see what was going on....
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Post by PrettyBaby24 on Jul 25, 2005 18:01:16 GMT -5
Actually the college I went to would have a class on Harry Potter. They already have Disney, mupets, and other pop culture classes.
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Post by angel17 on Jul 25, 2005 18:32:32 GMT -5
now see that is cool...i would like to attend a class on disney lol thats like all disney movies haveing something satanic in them? i never notice it? any of you? lol
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Post by Lauren on Jul 25, 2005 19:22:47 GMT -5
haah no.. but there are little hidden things lol.. like in aladin the word sex is writtin in clouds
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Post by angel17 on Jul 25, 2005 20:36:28 GMT -5
haha yeah i noticed that lol its amazing what you can find in those movies if you watch closely
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melimsah
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Post by melimsah on Jul 25, 2005 22:41:10 GMT -5
REALLY?!?! Where in Aladdin is this?? *pops tape into vcr and presses nose up against screen while watching*
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Post by Kim on Jul 25, 2005 22:54:59 GMT -5
I heard that is was something bad, not necessairly satanic. Or rather, I guess something not PC.
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Post by LaFemmeImmortelle on Jul 26, 2005 0:46:07 GMT -5
An interesting idea for a class, but I don't think I'd take it. Like Trish, I like the mystique of the magic-ness. I'd more likely take the Psychology of Simpsons class at UC Berkeley than the HP science class. Great idea though. It really encourages people to think and ponder the books some more.
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