Here are some links I’ve gathered over the years to newspaper stories about Harry Potter classes at colleges and universities:
“Harry Potter Goes to College” (from UW’s Daily)
http://dailyuw.com/2007/5/29/harry-potter-goes-to-college/
“Harry Potter Goes to College: Professor Uses Boy Wizard To Explores Links Between Magic, Science”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/19/national/main584456.shtml
“Pottermania Lives on in College Classrooms”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/25/cnnu.potter/index.html
“Harry Potter and the Learning Spell”
http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2009/01_1/corner/01/
“Harry Potter Brings Magic into the Classroom”
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3679
“Bottom-ranked School Shoots to Top after Introducing Harry Potter-themed Curriculum”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493455/Bottom-ranked-school-shoots-introducing-Harry-Potter-themed-curriculum.html
“Sociology Class Uses Harry Potter, Technology to Teach Real Life Issues”
http://www.meredith.edu/mcnews/spt-potter-soc.htm
“‘Harry Potter’ Goes to College: Students Study the Books Seriously in New Courses”
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1595623/story.jhtml
“Course Credit for Harry Potter, Vampires, Sex, Beer, and Chocolate”
http://www.su-spectator.com/course-credit-for-harry-potter-vampires-sex-beer-and-chocolate-1.479223
“Harry Comes to Campus”
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050725/25read.b1.htm
“UC Riverside ‘Pottermania 2005’ Offers Scholarly Insights
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=1145
“Taking ‘Harry’ Higher”
http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=potter
“Generation Hex”
http://www.faculty.sfasu.edu/smithac1/chronhe.htm
“Harry Potter Goes to College: Should the Popular Book Series Be Taken Seriously as Literature?”
http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=1939