How about an MA in Magical Studies?

NY Times:

In the ancient city of Exeter, three women were hanged for practicing witchcraft in the late 17th century, the last of such executions in England. Now, merely a short walk from where the hangings occurred, the University of Exeter will offer a postgraduate degree in magic and occult science, which the school says is the first of its kind at a British university.

Prof. Emily Selove, the head of the new program and an associate professor in medieval Arabic literature, said the idea for the degree, which will be offered starting in September 2024, came out of the recent surge in interest in the history of witchcraft and a desire to create a space where research on magic could be studied across academic fields.

Coursework will include the study of Western dragons in lore, literature and art; archaeology theory; the depiction of women in the Middle Ages; the practice of deception and illusion; and the philosophy of psychedelics. Through the lenses of Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions, lecturers will explore how magic has influenced society and science.

People are enrolling, says one British wiccan,

Not because they’re idiots and think it’s going to teach them how to wave a magic wand and do a spell. They’re people who have just a huge curiosity about the world and the way we perceive the seen and the unseen worlds.

But, I mean, if they're not going to teach us how to do it, what's the point? Seriously, I foresee a program not rigorous enough to satisfy grim academics like me and not woo enough to satisfy most of the people who might enroll. 

Let's consider, for example, "Western dragons in lore, literature and art," a subject once dear to my young heart. Dragons are not common in the western tradition until the late 19th century, and so far as I can tell they do not mean anything in particular. As I wrote here about the Roman magical tradition, what stands out to me most about the western lore of magic is its complete absence of any kind of theoretical framework beyond a vague notion of spiritual powers and a desire that emotions (hate, envy, desire) have a real impact on things that are. Dragons sometimes represent ill-gotten wealth – in some German witch trials, witnesses said they knew the accused had sold their souls for gain because they were seen riding in the air on dragons – but mainly they are just scary monsters for heroes to slay and be slain by and things for 14th-century manuscript illustrators to doodle in the margins.

The sad truth is that what comes down to us from the western lore of magic is, for the most part, neither particularly deep nor particularly interesting. There are a couple of fine fairy tales – East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Yew Tree – but those were not recorded until the nineteenth century and so far as we can tell the people who told them did not understand the memories of ancient shamanism they encode. Yes, there are few hints that some medieval people had a practice based on ancient religious lore, but three-quarters of them are in one book, Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles. Otherwise the best books about witchcraft focus, not on the magical acts, but on the petty village rivalries and obscure hatreds acted out in the trials. 

To extract any kind of religion or philosophy from our magical lore requires a great act of imagination, spinning those hints into something which is not really there but which you can glimpse if you read by moonlight in the Ember Days. I think I understand something about Druidism, but I freely admit that the leap from the meager sources to the thinking behind them is half imaginative. And that is why I loaded what I know about our magical tradition into a novel (The Raven and the Crown) rather than a monograph. To me, the magical sources work best as springboards for the imagination of storytellers, whether that is Irish talesmen or J.R.R Tolkien. And that is why modern Wicca is only very loosely based on any kind of tradition, filled out with modern ecological sensibilities, feminism, and the Romantic cult of feeling. 

You could fill a course with facts about our old lore, I guess, but I think I could lay out everything I know about what they might mean in an hour. How one might turn that into an MA program I have no idea.