It was huge fun. As well as studying the stories in detail (and a couple of them were new to me, so those were a delight to discover), I think my favourite aspect was the engaging with other students. The discussion forums were thoughtful and I learned a great deal from them. Some of the points raised would never have occurred to me but made me look again at the stories in detail to see why the originator had come up with those points.
One story was studied per week and as well as looking at the text, there were video clips. They had a wonderful narrator with a real gift for storytelling and it was a joy to listen to her.
If another course is held on further stories by Andersen or the Brothers Grimm. I'd definitely try it. And I will keep a look out for other courses based on the writings of other writers. I wanted to try this particular course to see if I could do it and was so pleased I did. The biggest thing I think it did for me was to give me a deeper appreciation of just what a talented writer Hans Christian Andersen was. There are more layers to his tales than it appears at first and the in depth study helped bring that out.