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.
As a research center in the Institute for American Thought, the Bradbury Center provides students seeking a professional editing certificate a unique opportunity to work in a scholarly environment.
The certificate is a stand-alone graduate professional credential, but students in the English and History graduate programs can earn the certificate by completing the Professional Editing concentration embedded in the specific discipline.
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. Due to the unique nature of this program, you must contact the program director, Professor Raymond Haberski, haberski@iu.edu, 317-278-1019 for an interview before completing the IU Indianapolis Graduate Online Application. There may be an application fee involved; so we do not want you to apply unless you qualify. After your interview, if Professor Haberski tells you to do so, complete the application process at: https://graduate.indianapolis.iu.edu/admissions/.
The program covers the fundamental theories and methods involved in the practice of scholarly editing and other more general applications of professional editing. The program is taught in a laboratory-style environment and includes related technological applications found at the center of commercial and scholarly publishing today.
To meet the 15-hour certificate minimum after completion of the chosen core concentration. Can include a lab course on TEI (Textual Editing Initiative)
