Post by Madame Minka Davinmir on Oct 29, 2007 20:56:33 GMT -5
Course Outline
Divination: In Depth
Professor: Madame Minka Davinmir, HOH Hufflepuff
Office: 6th floor, North Tower, below the classroom.
5th and 6th year
Prerequisite: Divination: An Overview
Timeslot: Sunday- Thursday (Real Time)
Duration: 2.5 Hours
This course will provide an more in depth look into divination and understanding more complex and more meaningful predictions. This class also addresses the more dangerous and darker forms of Fortune-telling.
Required texts:
"Farther into the Future" by Prof. Yuri Staffen
A copy of the "I Ching"
Course materials:
Wand
Notebook, quill and ink
A journal
Crystal Ball
Tarot Deck
Egyptian Cartouche cards
A satchel of salt
Course Calendar
Week 1 - The Gift
Week 2 - Advanced Tarot card readings
Week 3 - Astrology: gazing deeper into the stars
Week 4 - Advanced Palmistry
Week 5 - Mid Term Exam
Week 6 - Dreams: Knowing when its meaningful.
Week 7 - Dangerous Divination: The Egyptian Cartouche
Week 8 - The Egyptian Cartouche cont.
Week 9 - Divination Days: create a calendar
Week 10 - Final Exam
Yule Break
Week 1 - Dactylomancy: Divination using metal rings
Week 2 - Lithomancy :Casting of stones
Week 3 - Oculomancy: The eyes are the windows of the soul
Week 4 - Alomancy: Patterns in salt
Week 5 - Mid Term Exam
Week 6 - I Ching Divination
Week 7 - I Ching Divination Cont.
Week 8 - Catoptromancy
Week 9 - Rhabdomancy
Week 10 - Final Exam
Course Policies
Lateness will not be tolerated, save for severe illness, injury or uncontrollable circumstances.
Absences will not be tolerated, save for severe illness, injury, or uncontrollable circumstances.
Participation is to be expected.
Homework must be handed in at the beginning of class.
Missing exams will result in a failing grade, save for illness, injury or uncontrollable circumstances, then a make-up exam will be given.
Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. A failing grade for the course will be given with possible expulsion from the course.
Grading
10% - Research/note-taking
50% - Exams
25% - Assignments
15% - Participation
