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Durmstrang Institute Course Catalog | Memory Faculty
The Memory Faculty at Durmstrang attracts students who have a strong curiosity for history, time, and memory. Having excellent senses of both time and space, these students study both how to manipulate them and humans’ place in the grand fabric of time. The Faculty offers a variety of both theoretical and practical courses, from international law and histories to traditional / arcane forms of magic, to experimental studies in time machines and memory carriers. As time encompasses all things and can be approached from many angles, the Memory Faculty is the most interdisciplinary and flexible faculty at Durmstrang,and it attracts students with all kinds of interests, some wishing to study the preservation of ancient scripts while others are fascinated by current events and the political climate. Those who enter the Memory Faculty often find that other branches of magic come easier to them later on, as they have, quite literally, mastered the texture of time that permeates every kind of magic.
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Welcome back to a new school year! Here is a list of some elective courses open for registration at Durmstrang Institute, please pay close attention to course descriptions to ensure that you meet the prerequisite requirements. Interested students should register no later than Friday, September 8th.
Hidden in the labyrinthine alleyways behind the Bund of British Concession Shanghai, the Daoming Academy of Shanghai was established shortly after the fall of the Qing Dynasty and heavily funded by British and French wizards who profited from the Opium War. Surviving both muggle conflicts such as World War II and the civil war shortly after, as well as persecution against wizards as a declaration of China’s political progress and industrialization, Daoming has become one of the leading academic institutions in the East Asian wizarding world.
For the most part, students at Daoming lead lives closely integrated in their urban, non-magic surroundings, and very rarely use their magic in the open, even though there is no explicit law in the Magical Federation of China that regulates magical practice. Admission to Daoming is strictly determined by candidates’ affiliation to the eight great families that extend almost oligarchical control over Magical Shanghai’s trade and politics. Blood descendants and kin in family branches are automatically enrolled, while lesser-known families or muggle-born wizards must find sponsorship from one of the Eight before their applications are considered.
Almost all of the famous Chinese diplomats, politicians, and financiers come from Daoming, and membership in this network, often bolstered by marriages and business ties, have made Shanghainese wizards immensely wealthy and immensely proud. The exclusivity of alumni’s tight circles can often appear conservative and even secretive to outsiders, to the point where many wizards in Shanghai do not know of the Eight and their spheres of influence. However, the younger generations of Daoming graduates are beginning to expand their connections beyond magical communities in the old British Empire, and their entrepreneurial spirits have fared well in both the United States and South America.
In addition to courses in communications, finance, and political science (which are almost never offered in other wizarding schools), Daoming is known for its extensive library collection on ancient Chinese magic as well as Western practices. Some of the better-known classes include: Weather Manipulation, Communicating with Natural Spirits, Weapon Enchantment, Spell-casting Media, Ink-spells and Curses, and Western Incantation Analysis. In addition, Daoming has dedicated a team of faculty and staff to establish the Conservation Institute, which studied magical artifacts in various Chinese culture groups, and is funded by alumni to buy back Chinese artworks and antiques looted by Western wizards during the turmoil of the 19th century.
In the 2017-2018 school year, Daoming aims to explore even more faculties of magic and give students more freedom to customize their academic career. A course catalog with sample electives will be released soon.
