- Master of Publishing
- Admissions to the MPub Program
- Masters Courses
- 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 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
- Faculty and Staff
- Awards and Financial Support
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Undergraduate Minor
- Undergraduate Courses
- 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 Publishing Process
- PUB 375: Magazine Publishing
- PUB 401: Technology and the Evolving Book
- 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 and Management
- PUB 458: Journalism as a Publishing Problem
- PUB 477: Publishing Practicum
- PUB 478: Publishing Workshop
- Undergraduate Courses
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PUB 331: Graphic Design in Transition: Print and Digital Books
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PUB 332: Graphic Design in Transition: Print and Digital Periodicals
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PUB 371: Structure of the Book Publishing Industry in Canada
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PUB 438: Design Awareness in Publishing Process and Products
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PUB 448: Publishing and Social Change: Tech, Texts, and Revolution
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PUB 456: Institutional and International Event Planning and Management
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Beginning with the oft-repeated slogan, “everyone is a publisher now,” this course explores the conditions under which this claim is possible.
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This course provides students with a basic understanding of the principles and elements fundamental to publication design and production in print.
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Social media are transforming the public behaviour of organizations into publishing activities focused on the management of their social identities.
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During this course, participants will gain university-level skills and practice in writing clear, concise, logical and direct text suited to particular professional purposes.
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A critical and applied approach to theories and practices of professional public engagement, with a focus on public relations.
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Design and production processes are an essential aspect of publishing. This course provides students a basic understanding of the principles and elements fundamental to publication design and production.
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Building on the principles learned in PUB 231: Graphic Design Fundamentals, this course is a comprehensive look at book design practices, in both print and digital media.
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An in-depth study of the design methods fundamental to periodicals in print and in digital media.
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Students of PUB 350 will study the best practices of contemporary book marketing.
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PUB 355W-4 explores the ways that publishers use digital channels, devices, and platforms to build or promote marketing messages.
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This course is about the book publishing industry in Canada, with a focus on how we got here, where we are now, and where we’re going next.
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Students will follow the book-publishing process from the acquisition and editing of manuscripts through to production, promotion and distribution.
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This course serves as an overview of the Canadian magazine publishing industry and the challenges and opportunities facing today’s publisher.
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Technology and the Evolving Book explores the dramatic, controversial, and sometimes baffling movement within the book industry today as writers, readers, and markets move increasingly online. This course attempts to envision the future of the book by making sense of their past and present, and by understanding the technological and social forces that have shaped their trajectory.
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With digital technologies, we are pushed to ask what is a publication (form/content), and, within the context of this class, what is the role of designers in publishing. This course mixes research and design practice to investigate and experiment with the idea of publications from a designer’s point of view.
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This course provides publishing students with a survey of skills and knowledge grounding design thinking, interrelations between design and the making of knowledge and meaning, teamwork by and in design, and some well-worn principles focusing design constraints and opportunities, problems and solutions.
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An exploration of the relationship between publishing and social change, both historically and today.
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Book publishing is a cultural activity, but first and foremost, it is a commercial activity. PUB 450 surveys a range of business aspects of publishing, by examining publishing companies that are well managed and successful.
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The course covers case studies, and best practices for the management of festivals and literary events both physical and digital, with a practical focus, on addressing major issues in festival and event management including; the relationship between community and audience, fundraising and budgeting, curating and discoverability.
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Technological change is affecting the media and traditional publishing by disrupting its business model, methods of dissemination, and control.
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A practicum in which students have the opportunity to work in an applied publishing setting.
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An advanced workshop on the publishing process focused on applied research.