The Potential of The Witcher : In an interdisciplinary work between Religious studies and English

Abstract: This essay examines if The Witcher: The Last Wish can be used as a pedagogical tool for interdisciplinary literary seminars about current issues and events in students’ daily lives and society between the Swedish upper secondary school courses English and Religious studies. Additionally, the study investigates if literary seminars about how The Witcher: The Last Wish can broaden the students’ understanding of religious practices in daily lives and what effect their religion has on their relation to ethical and existential issues. In the Swedish educational system, every course should incorporate the overarching value-based curriculum which includes value-based topics such as: democratic principles, human rights, and current issues and event that the students face in their daily lives or in society. The results of the essay showed that several ethical issues are portrayed in the book that can be used as material for interdisciplinary literary seminars between Religious studies and English studies. The ethical issues were of the sort that connects to events in society or in students’ daily lives. Additionally, there were parts of the book comparable to Christianity and Hinduism which are both cultural phenomena in English speaking countries thus making these parts possible to use as material for interdisciplinary literary seminars between Religious studies and English studies as well. The results were retrieved using close reading and pedagogical text analysis on The Witcher: The Last Wish.