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 3 January - 21 April 2017. Classes
will normally be held three days a week from 6-8 p.m. (Tue, Wed, Thu).
Applicants have to appear for a screening test on 16 December 2016 (Friday), at 6 p.m., to be held on the first floor of
the UG Arts Building.
Course
fee: Rs 10,000.
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: 13 December 2016.
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, Cambridge University Press, HarperCollins, Rupa, Hachette, Scholastic, Penguin India, Macmillan, Dorling Kindersley, Sage, Orient Blackswan, Anthem, Google, TCS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Times of India, the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, and the Jadavpur University Press, 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, Cambridge University Press, HarperCollins, Rupa, Hachette, Scholastic, Penguin India, Macmillan, Dorling Kindersley, Sage, Orient Blackswan, Anthem, Google, TCS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Times of India, the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, and the Jadavpur University Press, among others.
