- IS: Harry Potter and Popular Culture

Catalog description

This course will examine the influence of Harry Potter on popular culture and how many different disciplines played an instrumental role in creating these books and films. The purpose of this course will be to inform and demonstrate the essential collaboration between multiple disciplines used in the creation of the Harry Potter series. The disciplines discussed will include: Communication, Literature, Chemistry, Theology, Marketing, Education, Music and Sociology. Student will then use the information gathered (while researching those disciplines) and apply it to particular media issues to establish an understanding of media influence on popular culture.