Minor: Manuscript, Print Culture, and Editing
Program Requirements
The Minor in Manuscript, Print Culture, and Editing examines the social, cultural, economic, and political history of the written word. It considers relationships among authors, editors, publishers, printers, illustrators, and booksellers as well as the reception of texts by readers, reviewers, and critics. This minor allows students to study the production of texts through the centuries while also gaining hands-on editing experience through internal and external internships. Students take a wide variety of courses covering a range of historical periods that have a significant emphasis on the history of reading, writing, and authorship as well as courses that focus on aspects of contemporary publishing and editing.
To graduate with a Minor in Manuscript, Print Culture, and Editing, students must achieve a grade-point average of at least 2.0 in the 18-hour program described below, but no credit will be given for courses in which the grade is below C-. No course may fulfill more than one requirement.
Program of Study
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Editing and Publishing | 3 | |
| Structure Of English | ||
| External Internship (must be approved by UMKC English internship coordinator) | ||
| Publication Practicum | ||
| Publication Practicum | ||
| Publication Practicum | ||
| Studies in Digital Humanities | ||
| Rhetoric and Writing | 3 | |
| Professional and Technical Writing | ||
| Language, Literacy, Power | ||
| Rhetorics of New Media | ||
| Creative Writing I Fiction | ||
| Creative Writing Poetry | ||
| Literary Nonfiction | ||
| Women And Rhetoric | ||
| Multimodal Writing and Rhetoric | ||
| Composing Digital Environments | ||
| Technical Communication | ||
| Studies in Rhetoric and Composition | ||
| Literary Histories of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing | 3 | |
| Popular Literature | ||
| Women Writing/Women Reading | ||
| The Novel Before 1900 | ||
| Old English | ||
| Histories Of Writing, Reading, And Publishing | ||
| Girls, Literacies, and Print Culture | ||
| Classical Studies | ||
| Studies in Digital Humanities | ||
| Early Modern Studies | ||
| 18th-Century Studies | ||
| Medieval Studies | ||
| 19th-Century Studies | ||
| Studies in Rhetoric and Composition | ||
| Studies in Authorship | ||
| Studies in Genre | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Studies | ||
| Electives | 9 | |
Select three additional courses from any sections above. | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |