Spring 2025 - INDG 410 B100
Elements of Indigenous Style: Indigenous Editing Practices (4)
Class Number: 3328
Delivery Method: Blended
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
Deanna Reder
dhr@sfu.ca
1 778 782-8192
Office: RCB 8205, Burnaby Campus
Office Hours: 11:30-12:30 in person or by zoom; also office hours by appointment
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Prerequisites:
or Corequisite: INDG 101 or 201W.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Introduces basic editorial principles fashioned by an understanding of Indigenous practices and protocols to demonstrate how Indigenous people's ways of being, worldviews, and life experiences play into editorial decision-making. Students will develop an informed and case-by-case approach of their own by critically applying principles learned from Indigenous storytellers themselves. Students with credit for PUB 410 or PUB 480 under the title "Indigenous Editing" offered in Spring 2022 may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
An introduction to both basic editorial principles and to a diversity of Indigenous storytelling practices and protocols, this course explores how Indigenous peoples' histories, ways of being, worldviews, and life experiences might play into editorial decision-making. Rather than teaching individual editorial rules or prescribing universal rules for editing Indigenous manuscripts, this course will help students to consider the historical context and the principles behind the rules that guide all types of editing. Students will develop an informed and case-by-case approach of their own by critically applying principles learned from Indigenous storytellers themselves.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
Students of this course will be able to:
- Describe the history of publishing of texts by Indigenous authors in lands claimed by Canada
- Understand and identify foundational information regarding the histories of Indigenous peoples, including federal agreements that have affected Indigenous contexts
- Understand the debates around appropriation of Indigenous knowledges, especially around the 1980s and the 20teens
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of four types of editors
- Distinguish between developmental editing, stylistic editing, copy editing, and sensitivity reading issues
- Understand some of the roles that stories can play in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge systems
- Describe some of the principles in play when editing Indigenous manuscripts
- Provide a clear manuscript evaluation with suggested editorial treatment and rationale
Grading
- Grammar lessons and Indigenized Grammar Modules embedded in Canvas 25%
- Glossary on terms about identity 20%
- Guiding Principles in Indigenous Editing 20%
- Indigenous Anthology Proposal 25%
- Participation and Presentations 10%
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
As well as readings posted as PDFs or links on Canvas
REQUIRED READING:
Vowell, Chelsea. Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada. Highwater, 2016.
Younging, Greg. Elements of Indigenous Style, 2nd Edition. Brush, 2024.
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
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RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION
Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.