Hogwarts starts off much like any other school. You get stuck taking only required classes for the first two years. The classes that all students must take from first year until the end of fifth year are:<br/><br/>Astronomy: Recognizing the stars and planets in their movements across the skies as well as recognizing the constellations they form and the uses of this knowledge (telling time by the movements of the stars, navigating by them and the like).<br/><br/>Charms: Charms are everyday helpful enchantments and spells that aren't related to self-defense or transfiguration.<br/><br/>Defense Against the Dark Arts: Protecting one's self from various dark forces, be they dangerous creatures like Vampires and Werewolves or dark magics cast by evil wizards and witches.<br/><br/>Herbology: The study of magical flora. It is assumed that magical plants exist in rare places that muggles don't visit, or in highly-magical environments like Hogwarts and Diagon Alley.<br/><br/>History of Magic: The history of magical folk throughout recorded time. The past is apparently littered with many awful wars and events that Muggles never saw, never survived, or were made to forget.<br/><br/>Potions: Mixing up magical concoctions for all occasions.<br/><br/>Transfiguration: Changing the shape of animate or inanimate objects.<br/><br/>First years also attend mandatory classes on broom riding and probably get some instruction in Quidditch along the way.<br/><br/>Once you've entered Third Year at Hogwarts, you begin learning things that are essential not only to get around in the world, but to actually shape your future career path. Around the Easter holidays of their second year, students must choose two or more elective classes to add to their curriculum. Three is probably the upper limit that a student can manage in addition to their other courses, and they will be kept very busy indeed. The electives listed in JK Rowling's works are:<br/><br/>Ancient Runes: Dealing with ancient written languages and the translation thereof. Subjects presumably include heiroglyphics, the elder futhark, sanskrit and maybe even hebrew.<br/><br/>Arithmancy: From the descriptions of the funny boxes filled with numbers, this could be a variation of Enochian magic, Kabbalistic or Hermetic Magic, or, in other words, the magic of mathematics and numerology.<br/><br/>Care of Magical Creatures: The fauna equivalent of Herbology. Although, with Hagrid teaching it, it could also be considered a variation of Defense against the Dark Arts.<br/><br/>Chorale and Musical Instruction: Two seperate courses, but taught by the same teacher. These are, basically, singing and playing musical instruments. Remember Dumbledore's quote on the subject, "Ah, music! A magic beyond all we do here!"<br/><br/>Divination: Learning to predict the future. Of course, given that true divination is rather rare, it's considered bunk. The best they could actually do is teach the kids to properly interpret what their gifts tell them.<br/><br/>Muggle Studies: For wizard-born folk, this would seem an essential class to learn about the habits and history of muggles.<br/><br/><br/>Apparation and Disapparation: Sixth-year students are taken to the Great Hall on Saturday Mornings beginning in February, and are given 12 weeks of instruction on Apparation and Disapperation. The charms preventing them from doing so are removed at this time, and all teachers are present for lessons. After the required 12 weeks, brush-up instructions are given in Hogsmeade. All of this leads up to the test which is given on or after the student's 17th birthday.<br/><br/>In addition to the above, the Moderators of the Hogwarts Hub have added the following:<br/><br/>Independent Study: If students are bright enough and considered to be self-starters and highly motivated, they might be allowed to pursue independent courses of study for class credits. But they would have to turn in a report of at least 50 pages before the end of the year.<br/><br/>Internship/Apprenticement: For certain career fields, students would require hands-on, intensive study. For instance, would-be healers can train with Madame Pomfrey in the Hospital Wing. Would-be teachers might become Teachers' Aides for certain classes, Would-be brown nosers would become prefects... Ok, forget I mentioned that last one.<br/><br/>Magical Crafting: How to fabricate and enchant your own, how to check them over for curses if you've acquired them from someone else, how to repair them... It's a magical shop class.<br/><br/>Muggle Academics: A remedial course in reading, writing, mathematics, and other scholastic skills that students need to get good marks on the stuff they do in other classes. Not very popular, the ones who end up in it are usually placed there by instructors or their parents.<br/><br/>Visual Arts: This covers drawing and painting in most styles and mediums available to Wizards, and includes techniques and compounds that make it possible to animate one's art.<br/><br/>Magical Phenomena: This class goes into the various naturally-occuring magical wonders of the wizarding world, and the occasional foray into artificial effects, as well.<br/><br/>Magical Theory: This is the underlying science behind the functioning of magic. It discusses various systems used by different cultures and even provides a basic knowledge of the function of powerful, ancient magics. Students of this class learn to create their own spells, although the Administration would like to ask players to not go completely hog wild in making their own spells.<br/><br/>Wizarding Economics (Wiz Ec): Look at Molly Weasley vis-a-vis the kids in the books. Hermione can't knit, Ron is useless at tailoring, and they've all been depending on house elves to feed them. Obviously, they have to learn domestic arts somewhere...<br/>Questionable Things<br/><br/>Elective Classes Ok, I admit, we just kinda brainstormed ideas and came up with the non-canon electives like Magical Items and Devices, Wiz Ec and the like. Someone has to be teaching people in the wizarding world these sorts of things. I added Chorale, Music Instruction and Visual Arts because it occurs to me that they are important parts of the wizarding world, as well.<br/><br/>Athletic teams: Quidditch seems to be the big sport at Hogwarts, and the only really officially sanctioned one, but there are probably other sports as well.<br/><br/>Clubs: Lots of them, for all sorts of different interests. Gobstones, Wizard's Chess, Charms and the like. Dumbledore's Army is a notable DADA club, so it's likely that there's a Dark Arts club somewhere in the Slytherin side of things that teaches curses, hexes and how to make poisons and drugs, although it's likely to not be sanctioned, and probably meets somewhere like the Forbidden Forest, where there are lots of innocent creatures to hex, and no teachers watching.<br/><br/>Newspaper/Yearbook: Might have officially sanctioned clubs, as well, although we haven't seen them yet. Maybe if you're really bored, you can open up an underground newspaper at Hogwarts.<br/>