Maymester course offers Harry Potter insight
Millions of students around the globe are awaiting the arrival of this summer’s fifth Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix, and some students are even taking a Harry Potter class at Georgia College and State University.
The college is offering a unique class for Maymester this year. Music and Theatre Professor Greg Pepetone is teaching a course called The World of Harry Potter and Beyond. This class analyzes the Harry Potter book series by using the perspectives of gothic imagination and children’s literature.
Throughout the course, students will be discussing the first six books of the series, analyzing critical essays about Harry Potter and interpreting the films based on the series.
Music and Theatre Professor, Greg Pepetone, says, “Harry Potter books connect with traditional literature from the early nineteenth century that explores the inner life of children.”
Pepetone’s interest in teaching a course involving the Harry Potter series grew from his wealth of knowledge about gothic imagination and children’s literature and the connection between the two. The Harry Potter series is defined by gothic imagination and explores the world of hidden realities and fantasy.
The English department is offering the Harry Potter course because it hopes to provide classes that are both fun and intellectually challenging.
Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies, Sunita Manian, says, “ I think it is really important for students to have a sophisticated way of analyzing literature and it’s many different facets.”
Many students taking this course, which is an English elective, have read the six books and seen the four films of the Harry Potter series and are anxious to discover what they will be learning.
Junior Management Major, John Ham, says, “I have read all six Harry Potter books and I’m looking forward to this class because I know that it will be fun.”
Pepetone hopes that this course will be successful so that he can make an extended version of the class to be offered during regular semesters.
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on Apr 27 2007. Filed under News.
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