Graduate Programs
Certificate Programs
Professional Editing
The 15 credit hour graduate Certificate in Professional Editing, an interdisciplinary program administered for the School of Liberal Arts by the Institute for American Thought, can be taken in conjunction with the M.A. in English. The program offers several editing concentrations, but the scholarly editing concentration in Critical Editing or the concentration in Technical Editing provide the narmal courses of study for English Students.
Twelve credit hours of English courses comprise the Critical Editing core: L501 Professional Scholarship in Literature (4 cr.), L680 Topics: Textual Theory and Textual Criticism (4 cr.), and L701 Descriptive Bibliography and Textual Problems (4 cr.).
The final 3-4 credit hours required to complete the certificate are elective, and may take the form of a W609 Directed Writing Project or an L590 Internship supervised by the faculty editors of the Institute’s resident scholarly editions.
For the core of the Technical Editing concentration, students take W531 Designing and Editing Visual Technical Communication (4 cr.), W532 Managing Document Quality (4 cr.), and W609 Directed Writing Project. For the final course, it is recommended that students take W525 Research Approaches for Technical and Professional Communication (4 cr.), but other relevant electives are available.
All of these courses will double-count for both the editing certificate and the English M.A. (Electives outside English are also available, but these will not normally double-count.) GRE scores are not required for admission to the certificate program, but foreign students are required to take TOEFL and receive a score of 550 or above. Students already admitted to the English graduate program can follow a more streamlined admission process. However, such students must declare their participation in the certificate program and also submit a new statement of interest.