Faerie
NOTE: SAVING THE APPEARANCES by Owen Barfield, an attorney, is an excellent companion to this class. It looks like their estate might be having trouble coding it for pdf which is entirely understandable. It's available to borrow on the Archive.
Fay or faerie is the first intro mini class. As we are heading to the conclusion of the regular university trimester, which concludes this year on the 21st of Dec. if you put it off or are just now eavesdropping, see if you enjoy the content enough to stick around--- The Christmas break focuses on Frankfurt so...Everyone who is enrolling at age 14 or above, should have read the essay "On Faerie Stories" by JRR Tolkien at some point to contrast faerie fantasia with Frankfurtian fenomena. It explains the issues our society faces with regard to the supernatural. It is found on various websites, example below. Deep divers can read his various short faerie style stories like Niggle, Smith, Giles, etc and hold them up to the lens of his Lang lecture (three Ls.) Anthropologists may also be interested in the fact that Andrew Lang attended the Loretto school which was founded on the site of a former chapel to Our Lady of Loreto, the subject of a story of angels flying through the air carrying a house which may or may not be nihil obstat.
We also note here that the valanga knows nothing about Andrew Lang, and he should not be confused with Andrew Yang of the Yang Gang and UBI. Just as Oriel College seems to have been named for Uriel whose legacy is a tad problematic, and Napoleon stuck his name on an ancient Catholic city that had no say in being "taken over" nor in the slaughtering of priests in the name of Liberte', having a college named after you is not per se evidence of your saintly soul or even your the soundness of your scholarship for that matter. Even getting excommunicated is not evidence of anything, look at Joan of Arc.
Howbeit, for our purposes, only the one essay by Tolkien cited below is strictly on the syllabus. It has 41 pages and thus, for those who wish to print a textbook, or purchase one, you will be paying for 41 pages of paper and ink. Quite short and inexpensive as books go.
This is one place to access the Fairy Stories essay; there are various.