| Course Title: Jack the Ripper and the Making of Late-Victorian London |
| Start Date: 09/07/2022 End Date: 12/20/2022 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2022 |
| Description: In the summer and fall of 1888, a series of gruesome murders captured the attention of Londoners and brought questions of class, gender, race and social-economic change to the forefront of public debate. Though the culprit was never identified, Jack the Ripper became synonymous with the perceived dangers of late-Victorian London. Using newspapers, periodicals, police archives, and other sources from the period, this course will set students on an historical investigation of the "Whitechapel Murders," seeking to understand the event, its historical context, and the way historians have interpreted its meaning. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Desmond Fitz-Gibbon | dfitzgib@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/07/2022 - 12/20/2022 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 210 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 5 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Author: Rubenhold, Hallie Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Required | 16.99 |
| Title: They Say I Say: the moves that matter in academic writing Author: Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company |
Required | 16.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Hi everyone, I'm looking forward to meeting all of you in a couple of weeks time. My apologies for getting this book list out late to you. I wanted to say a quick word about editions. There are multiple editions for both of the required books in this course, and pretty much any edition will do. I know that Rubenhold has now come out in a soft cover, which is what many students get. They Say/I Say has MANY editions--more than I can keep track of. I'll be asking you to do assignments from this book, but with a great amount of flexibility, so you don't need to worry about having a specific edition. The latest editions can get expensive, so a used edition would be fine. We won't need either book for the first week of class, and you won't need They Say/I Say until, I think, week 3 or 4, so you still have plenty of time to pick up copies. Please let me know if you have any questions! |