CANON QUESTION

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

I usually post these in my own journal, but I figured HEY, WE HAVE A COMM FOR THAT, so I'm asking here, instead.  I recently had an interesting discussion about GHOSTS (do they show up on the Marauder's Map - answer was YES) and obviously I am writing something set at Hogwarts, which brings me to my next question or request for discussion.

In the books, Harry's classes throughout his school year are pretty fucking sketchy.  The list of Harry's classes throughout SEVEN YEARS seem very slim, so I can only assume there are classes that JKR never bothered to mention.  I would assume there to be standard classes that every British student should have, Y/Y?  Here in the US, we are required to have four years of English, four years of Math, and four years of some sort of Social Studies and (I think) four years of Science.  On top of that we have elective classes like art, drama, business studies, choir, home economics, band, and so forth.  The HP movies have one scene with an obviously very-practiced choir, so I would love to assume Hogwarts has a thriving music division (never mentioned by Harry or his friends due to lack of musical interest or talent), probably a drama department, and most likely a set of core classes common to all British Muggle schools.  We can possibly substitute Arithmancy for mathematics, but Astronomy is the only Science mentioned.  So, my questions are:

1) Are there British "core" classes common to all schools?  If yes, what would those be?  Are there magical equivalents or do you think there would be equivalents at Hogwarts?

2) What other classes (or even elective clubs or groups) do you think Hogwarts would have?

LINK TO HOGWARTS CLASSES - ALL THIRTEEN OF THEM.  THAT'S IT.  SEEMS RATHER LIGHT FOR SEVEN YEARS. 

There have already been hundreds of spells created by fic writers.  I see no reason why we shouldn't create non-canon school programs.  HELP ME, F-LIST!  YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE!  (Mods, if this sort of thing is disallowed, let me know and I will move it back to my journal.  THANKY!)

Comments

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to relate it to my four years of high school, during which I took:

English
Drama
Art
American History
Geography
Earth Science
Physics
Biology
Typing
Algebra
Geometry
Journalism

That's twelve different classes in four years. Additionally, my friends had:
Accounting
Language Courses
Woodworking
PE
Music (choir and band)
Home Economics
Shop (Mechanics)
And higher level math and science classes.

So that's at least 20 "available" classes in only four years, more when you consider each language as a separate class, band and choir as separate classes, and so on. I'm sure I missed some, also.

And that was at my public school in the middle of nowhere! Some high schools offer AVIATION.

[jtsbbsps-dk.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, that's different. Out 'high school' is 3 years (which is what I'm graduating from this summer YAY) and that's different, too. You can either have a class for 1 (C level), 2 (B level) or all 3 (A level) years (although P.E. is C level we have it all 3 years and some B levels get spread over 3 years as well) but all together I've had the following classes:
German
Danish
English
History
Philosophy
Social Science
religion
"ancient class" (like ancient history/ancient literature (first dramas and such) and Plato rolled into one)
P.E.
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
"general language understanding" (½ year thing with basic grammar, some language history and a bit of latin)
Art
Math (which includes algebra and geometry and such. We have ALL THE KINDS OF MATH in one class called 'math' :P)

So, you can sort of chose for yourself, but there are restrictions (we must have English B level and Math C and at least 3 science-y classes and one of those must be B level and it's required to have danish and history all 3 years)

But besides these, the following classes are also offered:
latin
Italian
Spanish
French
naturegeography
Music
economics
design
drama
psycology
Astronomy

and of course we have choirs and bands as well.

What the hell is Aviation?!

also: other schools offer classes like Media (making/analysing videos/movies) and Chinese, too. It can vary a lot. And this is only the kind of 3 year pre-uni I take. There are other's that are more focused on trade/economics or tech stuff and it's just hard to explain >.

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

OMG, I forgot Computing! Of course that wouldn't apply at all at Hogwarts, but they have all sorts of computer classes now, software specific, and intro to Programming.

Aviation is flying airplanes. I knew a boy once who was taking it at his high school. Oh, and Driver Training is a standard high school class here.

[jtsbbsps-dk.livejournal.com]

Ah, naturally all classes that involve technology wouldn't work at Hogwarts :P
*sigh* I'd love to have a programming intro class, but I'd need to go to one of our other versions of the last 3 years of high school >.<

O_O SERIOUSLY?! :O and okay, you guys are lucky with that last one. We have to go outside school to 'driving schools' and we have to pay a motherfucking lot for those lessons. I didn't have money enough to take Driver Training lessons so I still haven't learned how to drive >.<

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

LOL, yeah, Driver's Ed is standard, you just have to be sixteen. I never took it because I could already drive. (Dad taught us starting at about 12.)

[jtsbbsps-dk.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fucking early O_O My mum can't drive because of her disability, we have no car and I have no dad to teach it to me, so yeah, have not really had the opportunity to learn xDD

[nenne.livejournal.com]

Among the language courses there must be Latin. I wouldn't be surprised if that was even compulsory. Think of all the spells that are Latin based. Greek might also be handy.

In the movies Flitwick is directing a choir, so some music lessons must be available. Think of all the cool instruments they might have! *flails*

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! And they have Wizarding Wireless, so there have to be more performers than just the Weird Sisters and Celestina Warbeck.

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

When I was at secondary school in the 1970s, from 11 - 16, I did english, maths, science, history, geography, art, french, PE, music, sewing and cookery, i.e. domestic science.