NOW IN ITS 13TH YEAR
Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing
at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University
at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University
Applications are invited from Honours graduates in any discipline for a
PG Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing to be conducted by the School
of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, from 5 January- 22 April
2016. Classes will normally be held three days a week from 6-8 p.m. (Tue, Thu,
Fri) Applicants have to appear for a screening test on 17 December 2015 (Thursday), at 6 p.m., to be held on the first floor of
the UG Arts Building.
Course fee: Rs 10,000 to be paid on the day of admission, by cheque or
demand draft payable in Kolkata, made out to "The Registrar, Jadavpur
University’.
Applications may be made on plain paper or by email to jueditpub@gmail.com. Paper applications should be submitted to the
School of Cultural Texts and Records (5th floor, Rabindra
Bhaban, JU) between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on working days.
Last date for receipt of applications: 14 December 2015.
Broad course topics: role
of the editor; parts of a book; copy-editing and proofing; documentation and
indexing; copyright; office correspondence; overview of publishing; editing
with software; book and cover design; commissioning and contracts; production;
manufacture; open source philosophy and LaTeX; pagemaking using proprietary
software such as Adobe Pagemaker, Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign; publicity
design; business plan analysis; e-publishing; marketing; publicity;
distribution; press visits; live projects.
India’s longest running university course in Editing and Publishing has trained hundreds of professionals for some of the leading English-language publishing houses in the country, as well as for other media. Our students have been hired by Pearson Education India, Pearson Education U.K., Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Rupa, Hachette, Scholastic, Penguin India, Macmillan, Dorling Kindersley, Sage, Orient Blackswan, Anthem, Google, TCS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Times of India, and the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, among others.
India’s longest running university course in Editing and Publishing has trained hundreds of professionals for some of the leading English-language publishing houses in the country, as well as for other media. Our students have been hired by Pearson Education India, Pearson Education U.K., Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Rupa, Hachette, Scholastic, Penguin India, Macmillan, Dorling Kindersley, Sage, Orient Blackswan, Anthem, Google, TCS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Times of India, and the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, among others.
