The course will deal with fairy tales as folk tales, and their various versions till our days. The meetings will focus on the way  the Grimm Brothers wrote them for adults and for children in the nineteen's century, in comparison with the way these fairy tales are written for children today, and especially with the way they are adapted for children by Walt Disney's films as a cultural phenomena.

The comparison will focus on the way the society's norms and the culture and world views of a certain society and era are exposed in Grimm's versions and the other versions and adaptations till today. This will include Gender discussions and a discussion referring to various approaches to children and childhood. The course will include also a discussion about the esthetic value of the literary text: the language, the characters, the plot, the point of view and other artistic aspects of those versions.

The discussion may include also a comparison with other classical texts which were adapted for young children, as Andersen's tales, the Greec Mythology and other Mythologies as well as Classics like Peter Pan and folk tales from eastern cultures.