Wednesday 21 January 2015

Notice for the 12th Editing and Publishing course

See:
http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/htdocs/upload_files/scroll_info/1421841399.pdf


NOW IN ITS 12TH YEAR

Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing
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 February- April 2015. Classes will normally be held four days a week from 6-8 p.m. Applicants have to appear for a screening test on 30 January 2015 (Friday), at 6 p.m., to be held on the first floor of the UG Arts Building.

Course fee: Rs 8,500, 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: 29 January, 2015. 
(For details about previous courses see: http://editpub.blogspot.in/)

After an initial six weeks of common classes, the course will divide into two parallel modules, one specializing in editing and the other in design. Eight to ten students, depending on aptitude, may apply for the design module.

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; Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop; 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.


P.S. Those who have applied once need not apply again,



5 comments:

Unknown said...

"Applicants have to appear for a screening test on 30 December 2015 (Monday), at 6 p.m., to be held on the first floor of the UG Arts Building."
Pls confirm this date nd time.

Unknown said...

I have applied for this course last night as the date has been extended.however i have not received any mail as to confirm my application has been granted or not. what should I do? do i need to make a fresh application again?

fafnir said...

@Sohini: Thanks for pointing that out. The notice has been corrected.

@Suchetona: Thank you for asking. The robot who was assigned the task of replying instantaneously to emails had severe knee cramps during the last week while he was trying repeatedly to fly into Saturn's orbit, and as a result, couldn't check the mail.

But don't worry. If you've written an email, and it shows "sent" in your sent mailbox, you'll get a reply...soon.

Unknown said...

When will the results be published?

Soumini said...

Are the application forms for this course made available only once in a year that is in december-january? Or is there any second time period during which forms for the same are relesed as well?