Muggle Studies

Muggle Studies is a class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's exactly what it says it is - the study of the daily lives of muggles and how they cope with not being magical. This class aims specifically to acquaint witches and wizards who do not have direct contact with muggles with the way they live. It is an optional subject, taught from the third year to the seventh.

The study of muggles, non-magical people, which involves writing essays such as "Why Muggles Need Electricity." Muggle Studies is considered a soft option, but Percy Weasley thinks it is important for a wizard to have an understanding of the non-magical community, especially if he works closely with them.

Hermione Granger took this class (and every other) in her third year, though she already knew plenty about muggles since her entire family is non-magical (she said she wanted to study muggles from the wizards' point of view). She of course, excelled in it, but dropped it in her third year when she found her schedule too demanding.

This class was taught by Charity Burbage until she was killed in the Draco Manor by Lord Voldemort. He killed her using the Killing Curse because of what she wrote about muggles for the Daily Prophet. She died instantly, and Nagini was then allowed to eat her.