As detailed in the\u00a0Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin<\/a>, eight semester courses (32 credits) and a\u00a0thesis<\/a> related to editing are required for the degree. In addition to the five required Editorial Institute courses, students take at least one related course in another department at the University and at least one directed study; the eighth course may be a related course or a directed study. All three courses must be relevant to the subject of the thesis, and approved by the student\u2019s faculty advisor.<\/p>\n Learn more about our current MA candidates here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Learning Objectives for the MA in Editorial Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n Students graduating with an MA in Editorial Studies are expected to:<\/p>\n 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the principles and practice of scholarly editing<\/p>\n 2. Produce, in a timely fashion, a thesis that shows knowledge of primary sources, secondary literature, and research methods and techniques appropriate to the particular field in which editorial work has been conducted.<\/p>\n 3. Conduct research in an ethical manner<\/p>\n An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. The course features several speakers and attends to notable editorial achievements.<\/p>\n Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.<\/p>\n Investigates the impact of print technology on society from the fifteenth century to the present, considering the sociology and politics of publishing, writing and reading practices, concepts of authorship and copyright, censorship and control of the press, and the future of the book.<\/p>\n CAS EI 507 Publishing Procedures<\/strong> \u201cPublishing Procedures\u201d is a graduate course at the Editorial Institute. It examines the history, principles, theory and practices of book publication focusing on\u00a0scholarly and serious trade monographs.\u00a0\u00a0 The course is designed for scholars and writers, for anyone who reads, writes, buys, collects,\u00a0 produces or sells books.\u00a0 Among the many goals of the course: to introduce all the processes involved in publishing,\u00a0 their origins and purposes,\u00a0 to cultivate an\u00a0 appreciation for books and their history,\u00a0 to complete a single long project,\u00a0 work collaboratively, and\u00a0 write at a professional level. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EI 509, History of the Book is a prerequisite, ideally taken concurrently.<\/p>\n Editing Across the Disciplines (CAS EI 508)<\/strong><\/p>\n Bringing together expertise from different areas of the University, this course will introduce students to the purpose, practices, and effects of editing, broadly defined, in disciplines as diverse as musicology and Biblical studies, philosophy and classics.<\/p>\n Supervised research toward the Master’s thesis.<\/p>\n Please see the\u00a0Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin<\/a> and the\u00a0College of Arts and Sciences Bulletin<\/a> to review related courses in other University departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Master\u2019s Degree Program As detailed in the\u00a0Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, eight semester courses (32 credits) and a\u00a0thesis related to editing are required for the degree. In addition to the five required Editorial Institute courses, students take at least one related course in another department at the University and at least one directed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions\/421"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/editinst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Courses for the Master\u2019s Degree<\/h3>\n
The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing (CAS EI 501)<\/h4>\n
Textual Scholarship (CAS EI 503)<\/h4>\n
Topics in Textual Scholarship and the History of Western Society: The History of the Book (CAS EI 506)<\/h4>\n
\nProfessor Marilyn Gaull<\/p>\nDirected Study (GRS EI 901\/902)<\/h4>\n