| Course Title: Jack the Ripper and the Making of Late-Victorian London |
| Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2024 |
| 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 |
| 09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | CIRU - Ciruti | 127 | 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: 12 | Enrollment: 15 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing Author: Graff, Gerald Copyright: 2024 Edition: 6 Volume: ISBN: 132407003X Publisher: W. W. Norton |
Required | 24.00 |
| 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 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Please note that earlier editions of either of these books are fine for the course. I've added the most recent edition of They Say/I Say, but there are many others that might be available for cheaper. If I end up using some of the newer chapters, I will make sure that copies are available for those who don't have them. |