Doctor's degree Editorial Studies - Boston University

Doctor's degree Editorial Studies from Boston University is a Campus Ph.D Literature degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Editorial Institute at Boston University , which began instruction of students in 2000, was formed with the conviction that the textually sound, contextually annotated edition is central to the intellectual life of many disciplines. Its primary aims are the promotion of critical awareness of editorial issues and practices and the provision of training in editorial methods. The Institute offers advanced degrees (M.A. and Ph.D.) to students who successfully prepare either editions of important writings, with textual apparatus and annotation, or monographs concerned with editing or textual bibliography. Guidance to students is provided through courses that cover such topics as: establishing an authoritative text; the practice of annotation; current technologies for storing, disseminating, or editing information; legal and professional considerations concerning copyright and intellectual property; historical changes in the concept of authorship; the practice of annotation; and recent theorizing about texts. Students are encouraged to think widely about the applications of editing: to letters, sound archives, oral transcripts, music, manuscript fragments, legal and historical documents, journalism, notebooks, anonymous writings, and marginalia, as well as to the literary and philosophical writing most often associated with the idea of the edition. Doctoral Degree Program: An M.A. in Editorial Studies is not a prerequisite for the Ph.D. Relevant advanced study, however, is required. Based on the assessment of a faculty advisor, a student may need to take a course or courses from the M.A. program in order to be prepared for doctoral study. In addition to taking some of the M. A. program courses, eight semester courses (32 credits) and a dissertation related to editing are required for the degree . Computer literacy is essential. Of the eight required courses, four are taken in the Institute. Ordinarily, the remaining coursework consists of two directed studies with the student’s dissertation advisor, and two related courses in another department at the University, all of which must be relevant to the subject of the dissertation and approved by a student’s dissertation advisor. Students are jointly supervised in coursework and the writing of the dissertation, ordinarily by a director of the Institute and one or two adjunct professors drawn from, or approved by, the Advisory Committee. View more details on Boston University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Literature courses.