Professional Editing
Graduate Program
The Professional Editing graduate certificate program provides an interdisciplinary
range of core and elective courses designed for graduate students who
want to study the techniques and consequences of traditional editing
procedures, learn how corrupted texts of the past can be recovered and
disseminated for readers today, and explore how these procedures are
evolving in reaction to the rapidly changing technical communications
environment of the information age. The certificate is a stand-alone
graduate professional credential, but students in the English, History
and Journalism graduate programs can earn the certificate by completing
the Professional Editing concentration embedded in the specific discipline.
An interdisciplinary M.A. in Professional and Technical Editing has been
approved but is not yet funded.
Students enrolled in the graduate certificate program will be required
to complete a 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). Courses satisfying each requirement
are identified below; full course descriptions are provided in the Bulletin
sections for the departmental graduate programs where these courses reside.
As yet there is no procedure for applying online. Please contact the program director for an interview..
Courses- Courses in the two Scholarly Editing concentrations are offered
most frequently. These courses are taught by faculty affiliated
with the Institute for American Thought and its resident scholarly
editing projects: the Frederick Douglass Papers, the Peirce Edition
Project, and the Santayana Edition. Experience with the teaching
faculty and editing laboratories of Institute's scholarly
editions extends to the Professional and Technical Editing areas of the program
through at least one editions-based core course in each concentration.
- 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 five editorial fields:
- a. Scholarly Editing I: Critical Texts (12 cr.)
- L501 Professional Scholarship in Literature (4 cr.)
- L680 Topics: Bibliographical and Textual Criticism (4 cr.)
- L701 Descriptive Bibliography and Textual Problems (4 cr.)
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- b. Scholarly Editing II: Documentary Texts (11 cr.)
- H501 Historical Methodology (4 cr.)
- H543 Internship: Practicum in Public History (4 cr.)
- H547 Topics: Historical Editing (3 cr.)
- c. Technical Editing (9-10 cr.)
- W531 Designing and Editing Visual Communication (3 cr.)
- W532 Managing Document Quality (3 cr.)
- W609 Directed Writing Project ( 3-4 cr.)
- d. Professional Editing I: Journalism (9-10 cr.)
- J520 Seminar in Visual Communication (3 cr.)
- J530 Issues in New Communication Technology (3 cr.)
- W609 Directed Writing Project (3-4 cr.)
- e. Professional Editing II: General (11-12 cr.)
- W502 Fields of Editing (4 cr.)
- W503 Technologies of Editing (4 cr.)
- W609 Directed Writing Project ( 3-4 cr.)
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The Program Pamphlet: 
Program Requirements
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 Colloquium: Writing, Editing and Designing
for the World Wide Web; Digital Photography; 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.)
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