| 1 | Introduction: Folklore and Print Culture; Links between Oral Tradition and Literary Culture | |
| 2–4 | John M. Ellis: One Fairy Story Too Many; Germany in the Age of the Grimms; Perrault and the Written Fairy Tale Tradition | |
| 5–6 | Classic Fairy Tales | |
| 7–8 | Vladimir Propp: The Russian Folktale
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| 9–10 | Robert Kirk: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
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| 11–13 | Bruno Bettelheim: The Uses of Enchantment; Freudian Theory and the Fairy Tale | |
| 14–15 | Marie–Louise von Franz, Jungian Theory and the Fairy Tale | Essay 1 due two days after Session 15 |
| 16–18 | The Literary Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen and After | |
| 19–20 | Abuse of the Fairy Tale?: The Nazis and German Folklore, Christa Kamenetsky, and Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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| 21–22 | Classic Angela Carter Stories | |
| 23–25 | Liz Lochead: Grimm Sisters | |
| 26 | Last Class | Essay 2 due two days after Session 26 |
