Mod Account for Diatu Magicademy ([personal profile] magicademymods) wrote2019-01-03 12:14 pm

Classes and Student Teaching



Classes and Student Teaching


    The purpose of a Magicademy is teaching, of course, and so long as they are enrolled within it, students are expected to take and attend six classes per day, five days a week. This number has been fairly inviolate over the course of history, and has both tradition and proven efficacy to support it. The schedule sets aside mornings for instruction in the magical Curricula and afternoons for other subjects, emphasizing the primacy of magic in an aspiring wizard’s life while preventing any student from taking nothing but.

    Each class is a semester long, with one midterm of some form and one final administered to judge student progress. Students begin in class 1, and for most classes may advance to high-numbered classes in sequence with each passing semester. Every magic class goes from 1 to 10, representing five solid years of education to become as masterful at that Curriculum as the Magicademy can make you, whereas many other classes may only reach 5 or 4 -- or in the case of niche subjects, no further levels beyond the first.

    Each House has three required courses; each new student MUST have the first level of these three courses on their schedule in their initial semester, and to graduate each student MUST pass the full course series.

    Gekronus Maius: Discovery, Etiquette, History of the Tenscore Kingdoms
    Valhudor: Fantastics, Music, Physics
    Aer et Calculum: Thaumaturgy, Dialectical Logic, Astronomy
    Purifeul: Modification, Mathematics, Alchemy
    Eiather: Intimation, Religion, one language of choice
    Ka: Sundering, Law, History of Wizardry

    Due to recent events, students are strongly, strongly encouraged to study Draconic Knowledge.


Available Classes

Morning Classes

    Discovery (1-10)
    Fantastics (1-10)
    Thaumaturgy (1-10)
    Modification (1-10)
    Intimation (1-10)
    Sundering (1-??)
    Draconic Knowledge (1-??)


Afternoon Classes

    Alchemy (1-4)
    Astronomy (1-5)
    Astrology (1-4)
    Bala-Inlota Theory and History (1)
    Biology (1-4)
    Botany (1-4)
    Calligraphy (1-2)
    Communication (1-6)
    Dialectical Logic (1-5)
    Etiquette (1-5)
    Forging (1-10)
    Glyphics (1-10)
    History of the Tenscore Kingdoms (1-10)
    History of Wizardry (1-10)
    Languages (various) (1-5)
    Law (1-4)
    Literary Theory (1-4)
    Literature (1-6)
    Mathematics (1-10)
    Music (1-10)
    Physics (1-4)
    Religion (1-4)
    Zoology (1-4)

    This list is not comprehensive, merely a sample of what the Magicademy has to offer.


Student Teaching

    Recognizing that many of the Sundered have valuable skills, knowledges, and life experiences to share with others, Diatu Magicademy allows those students to apply for a position as student teachers. This position not only counts for a course credit but also draws a modest salary, allowing a share of financial freedom to those who might otherwise have nothing but what Diatu Magicademy in its grace gives them. It may also help those who feel too old or too experienced to be in school among so many youths to feel more comfortable in the education environment.

    To become a student instructor, a student must demonstrate suitable proficiency in an area of general applicability. (Thus, a history of their home world would not be valid, for example, though a course on strategy and tactics of a late medieval-fantasy world would be.) If their selection is accepted and they prove themselves worthy, they then prepare a syllabus and submit it for approval. Once approved, they may then teach the class in one afternoon slot of their choice.

    Student teachers are routinely audited to make sure they are grading fairly and without bias, teaching useful information, and performing well in their other classes. Beyond this level of oversight, student teachers are generally free to conduct their lessons as they see fit.

    Current student teachers and their classes are as follows:


    To apply to be a student teacher, comment to this post with your character’s name and proposed class.




treno_nobleman: (Default)

Student Teacher App

[personal profile] treno_nobleman 2021-08-03 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Proposed class: Multiverse

He knows there are other worlds out there. He has been to them. Heck, the Sundered have come from them. But Kuja has been to other worlds outside of Diatu's reach. While on Gaia, he slipped back and forth between Gaia and Terra when he felt like it. While in Dissidia, he was pulled to and fro between worlds while on an alien world in itself. Granted, that was by a god who cared nothing for his opinion and only wanted him because he's a powerful sorcerer who can blow up a planet like it's no big thing and that looks awesome in an army, but who's counting? His own perspective may not be unique in this. Others may have some kind of experience with this as well, but Kuja would like to outline a curriculum to explain the odds and ends and ins and outs of travel between worlds, what that looks like outside of Diatu, and what that might look like in Diatu as well.