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PEC—Requirements

 

Total requirement

 

minimum of 15 credit hours, which include:

• completion of any one of several three-course core concentrations (9-12 hours) and
• one or more open electives (3-6 hours)

 

The certificate program focuses on the scholarly editing concentrations directly supported by the major editorial research centers of the School of Liberal Arts (the Frederick Douglass Papers, the Peirce Edition Project, and the Santayana Edition). Experience with the teaching faculty and editing laboratories of SLA’s consortium of scholarly editions provides standardization through at least one consortium-based core course in each concentration. The W609 capstone projects for the Journalism, Technical, and general professional editing students will include opportunities to complete graduate-level research projects in such areas as:

1.  editing the electronic research databases of the Peirce and Santayana library and manuscript deposits,
2.  enumerative and notational bibliographical research projects focused on specific volumes-in-progress of these editions,
3.  extended essays in textual criticism of important American and British authors, and
4.  research projects in bibliographical and textual analysis that will allow students to apply scholarly editing techniques to important texts in the history of their home disciplines.

 

Students in the Scholarly Editing concentrations are not required to develop a W609 project, but may also develop one as an open elective. Advising will be conducted by the teaching faculty resident to the scholarly editions (Professors Eller, Touponce and Wokeck); they will design the W609 projects and will encourage students in professional and technical concentrations to use one elective option to take either an L590 or H543 internship with one of the in-house editions or a selection from the scholarly editing core.

 

1. Core Options

Three courses, 9-12 credit hours. Complete one of the following field concentrations, or (with advisor approval) create a three-course concentration combining relevant courses from the four professional fields:

A. Scholarly Editing Concentration I: Critical or Eclectic Texts (English, 12 credit hours)

• L501 Professional Scholarship in Literature (4 cr.)
• L680 Special Topics in Literary Theory and Study. Specific topic in Textual Theory and Textual Criticism (4 cr.)
• L701 Descriptive Bibliography and Textual Problems (4 cr.)

B. Scholarly Editing Concentration II: Documentary Texts (History, 11 credit hours)

• H501 Historical Methodology (4 cr.)
• H543 Internship: Practicum in Public History (4 cr.)
• H547 Topics in Public History. Specific topic in Historical Editing (3 cr.)

C. Technical Editing Concentration (English, 9-10 credit hours)

• W531 Designing and Editing Visual Communication (3 cr.)
• W532 Managing Document Quality (3 cr.)
• W609 Directed Writing Project (arranged individual editing project with the IUPUI scholarly editions consortium, 3-4 cr.)

D. Professional Editing Concentration I: Journalism (9-10 credit hours)

• J520 Seminar in Visual Communication (3 cr.)
• J530 Issues in New Communication Technology (3 cr.)
• W609 Directed Writing Project (arranged individual editing project with the IUPUI scholarly editions consortium, 3-4 cr.)

 

E. Professional Editing Concentration II: General (under development; English, 11-12 credit hours)

• W502 Fields of Editing: Theories and Practices (4 cr.)
• W503 Technologies of Editing: Producing Letter-press and Electronic Texts (4 cr.)
• W609 Directed Writing Project (arranged individual editing project with the IUPUI scholarly editions consortium, 3-4 cr.)

 

2. Open Elective Course(s)

 

One or two courses, 3-6 credit hours. Chose one or two courses (depending on the number of hours required to meet the 15-hour certificate minimum after completion of the chosen core concentration). Any of the core options listed above (outside of the student’s chosen field concentration) may be counted as an open elective, as well as any of the following courses:

• N501 Principles of Multimedia Technology (3 cr.)
• I501 Introduction to Informatics (3 cr.)
• I502 Information Management (3 cr.)
• J560 Topics Colloquia: Specific Topics in Writing, Editing and Designing for the World Wide Web (3 cr.); Digital Photography (3 cr.); Informational Graphics (3 cr.)
• J563 Computerized Publication Design I (3 cr.)
• J565 Computerized Publication Design II (3 cr.)
• L505 Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information [SLIS] (3 cr.)
• L515 History of the Book [SLIS] (3 cr.)
• L585 Descriptive Bibliography [SLIS] (3 cr.)
• L590 Internship in English [English] (4 cr.)
• W609 Directed Writing Project [English] (3-4 cr.)

 

Other appropriate courses in English, History, Philosophy, Informatics, Library and Information Science, Journalism, and New Media may count as an open elective if approved by the certificate program advisor.

 

 

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