Editorial Studies

• CAS EI 305: Manuscripts at Mugar
  Manuscripts, letters, rare books - literature, history, film, etc.- inspire our Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. M'scripts@mugar explores these for understanding and enjoyment. At Gotlieb and the Editorial Institute, undergraduates have their hands on originals, on editing, and on individual interests.
• CAS EI 491: Directed Study
  
• CAS EI 492: Directed Study
  
• CAS EI 501: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
• CAS EI 503: Textual Scholarship
  Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.
• CAS EI 506: Topics in Textual Scholarship and the History of Western Society
  Topics vary by semester.
• CAS EI 507: Editing and Publishing
  Publishing procedures. The history, principles, theory and practices of book publication, focusing on scholarly and serious trade monographs and text books. Students acquire skills in proposals and contracts, copyediting, design, copyright and permissions, production, marketing, dissemination and reviews. Workshop setting.
• CAS EI 508: Editing Across the Disciplines
  An introduction to editorial work in several disciplines, highlighting the practices, problems, and solutions encountered in each and identifying common principles where found. Editorial case histories in English literature, the Bible, classical texts, philosophical works, and music are considered.

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