First-Year Seminars 110VT - Making of Victorian London

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.

First-year students only, by placement.