<p>Is Wheaton College in Illinois a good school for music, specifically Music Education?</p>
<p>They appear to have a conservatory attached to the college and offer degrees in several areas of music. I would suggest changing your username to contact them, however, as I suspect a reference to Harry Potter might not be a good fit with their strongly Christian values.</p>
<p>Wheaton (IL) has a excellent conservatory of music. I have a friend that go there and loves it/She is a huge Potter fan.</p>
<p>Yes, I think that Wheaton’s solidly intellectual brand of Christianity would not have a problem with Harry Potter. Wheaton is orthodox evangelical but not fundamentalist.</p>
<p>Right you are violindad:
Wheaton College professor Alan Jacobs concludes that Harry Potter stories promote “a kind of spiritual warfare…. A struggle between good and evil…. There is in books like this the possibility for serious moral reflection…[and] the question of what to do with magic powers is explored in an appropriate and morally serious way.” </p>
<p>Years ago my daughter attended an elementary school in a Christian school who did ban the books when they first were published which really shocked me at the time. Not sure on their view now but I would imagine most Christian schools feel the same as the professor mentioned above.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the campus policy on HP is. </p>
<p>I do know that Wheaton College is home to the [The</a> Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)](<a href=“http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/]The”>http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/), which is an archival collection of major works of C.S. Lewis (author of the Narnia books), and also is home to archival materials by J.R.R. Tolkien–they have a Lewis family wardrobe and one of Tolkien’s writing desks. They also collect materials about Dorothy Sayers (an important mystery author) and G.K. Chesterton, who more or less invented the modern mystery novel. </p>
<p>I think they still frown on dancing and alcohol consumption, however, and I believe you have to sign a faith pledge in order to go (or work) there. Though the Decemberists played a concert there a few years ago. I personally think their library (and librarians) are very fine liberal arts college librarians. :)</p>
<p>My 2 cents, fwiw.</p>