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- PUB 600: Topics in Publishing Management
- PUB 601: Editorial Theory and Practice
- PUB 602: Design & Production Control in Publishing
- PUB 605 Fall Project: Books Publishing Project
- PUB 606 Spring Project: Magazine/Media Project
- PUB 607: Publishing Technology Project
- PUB 611: Making Knowledge Public: How Research Makes Its Way Into Society
- PUB 800: Text & Context: Publishing in Contemporary Culture
- PUB 801: History of Publishing
- PUB 802: Technology & Evolving Forms of Publishing
- PUB 900: Internship Project Report
- PUB 899: Publishing Internship
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- PUB 101: The Publication of Self in Everyday Life
- PUB 131: Publication Design Technologies
- PUB 201: The Publication of the Professional Self
- PUB 210W: Professional Writing Workshop
- PUB 212: Public Relations and Public Engagement
- PUB 231: Graphic Design Fundamentals
- PUB 331: Graphic Design in Transition: Print and Digital Books
- PUB 332: Graphic Design in Transition: Print and Digital Periodicals
- PUB 350: Marketing for Book Publishers
- PUB 355W: Online Marketing for Publishers
- PUB 371: Structure of the Book Publishing Industry in Canada
- PUB 372: The Book Publishing Process
- PUB 375: Magazine Publishing
- PUB 401: Technology and the Evolving Book
- PUB 411: Making Knowledge Public: How Research Makes Its Way Into Society
- PUB 431: Publication Design Project
- PUB 438: Design Awareness in Publishing Process and Products
- PUB 448: Publishing and Social Change: Tech, Texts, and Revolution
- PUB 450: The Business of Book Publishing
- PUB 456: Institutional and International Event Planning
- PUB 458: Journalism as a Publishing Problem
- PUB 477: Publishing Practicum
- PUB 478: Publishing Workshop
- PUB 480 D100: Buy the Book: A History of Publication Design (STC)
- PUB 480 OL01: Accessible Publishing (OLC)
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Alumni Profiles
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January 26, 2024
January 26, 2024
Christina Paul received her MPub degree in May of 2022. During her placement with Heritage Group Distribution, she discovered her passion for accessible publishing. Although Christina had already secured an enviable position with Amazon Books in India, she decided to quit her job and move to Vancouver to continue her MPub studies in January of 2021. While the program shaped her interests and enabled her to forge her own path, it also opened doors she never knew existed. Along with feeling an immense sense of pride, Christina shares that she has found her true purpose as a publishing professional.
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September 01, 2023
September 01, 2023
MPub alumnus Alessandra Bordini is the lead researcher for Aldus@SFU, an ongoing digital humanities initiative that began with the partnership of the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing (CISP) and SFU Library’s Special Collections and Rare Books. In this interview, she discusses the legacy of Renaissance Italy’s most renowned scholarly publisher Aldus Manutius, and how he reimagined publishing as a form of art.
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January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023
MPub alumnus Claire Cavanagh recently became a literary agent for The Rights Factory, an editorial agency founded almost two decades ago by its CEO, Sam Hiyate. Her clientele is already quite impressive and includes Gurki Basra, who you might've seen in Netflix's 2019 reality series, Dating Around.
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November 23, 2022
November 23, 2022
While Susan Juby's Master of Publishing (MPub) degree enabled her to become a teacher, a role she finds fulfilling, it also taught her other invaluable lessons. Susan is a critically acclaimed author and the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Here is her MPub story.
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February 10, 2022
February 10, 2022
Jazmin Welch graduated in 2021 from SFU's Master of Publishing program. She now owns and operates her own book design studio, fleck creative studio and design books for Arsenal Pulp Press. Jazmin spoke with us at SFU Publishing to share more about her experience with the program and the impact it has made on her career to this day.
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July 05, 2021
July 05, 2021
Lauren Dembicky-Polivka is an MPub’18 Alumni who is currently working as the Development Manager at the Vancouver Writers Fest. We sat down to ask her some questions about the upcoming festival and how her Master of Publishing (MPub) degree has helped shape her career.
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March 12, 2020
March 12, 2020
This interview is part of our “3 Questions” series with Publishing Minor students, Master of Publishing candidates, and MPub alumni.
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March 03, 2020
March 03, 2020
This interview is part of our “3 Questions” series with Publishing Minor students, Master of Publishing candidates, and MPub alumni.
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February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020
This interview is part of our “3 Questions” series with Publishing Minor students, Master of Publishing candidates, and MPub alumni.
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February 20, 2020
February 20, 2020
This interview is part of our “3 Questions” series with Publishing Minor students, Master of Publishing candidates, and MPub alumni.
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January 26, 2020
January 26, 2020
Originally, I thought I was going to be a fiction writer, but a funny encounter with local author, Douglas Coupland, made me rethink my plans. After a Vancouver Writers Fest event, I asked him if I should become a writer. His answer was a simple, and curt, “no”. When I stared blankly, he followed up by saying, “go live your life, do something else, become old…and then you can write.”
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July 18, 2018
July 18, 2018
Heidi Waechtler was once an MPub student—and now she’s the Executive Director of the Association of Book Publishers of BC (or ABPBC, which being able to say quickly and correctly is almost a right of passage for Master of Publishing students).
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September 22, 2018
September 22, 2018
It’s been just a few weeks since Jennifer Croll transitioned from her role as Managing Editor to Editorial Director at Greystone Books. And it’s been around 14 years since she was a grad student in Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Master of Publishing (MPub) program.
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March 12, 2018
March 12, 2018
I’ve talked to a handful of Master of Publishing alumni lately, and somewhere in the conversation I always ask what advice these accomplished, successful women have for the next generation of publishing professionals. Their answers have been strikingly similar: work hard, accept opportunities, ask questions, and seek out mentorship.