Publishing Programs/Courses
Sabatier Consulting places a strong emphasis on education as part of our consulting philosophy. To further that commitment, we have created a list that represents a broad spectrum of quality publishing programs and courses. For further information, please select a course from the list on the right.
City University-London
City London’s location places students within the commercial centre of the industry. Covering all types of publishing, the MA in Publishing Studies consists of several modules taught by global industry leaders. Additional courses are offered to obtain specific skills needed both in their placement companies and in the future. Placement is guaranteed, providing students with invaluable experience and contacts. Although the program in based in London, placement in the students home country is encouraged and supported.
Columbia Publishing Course
If you are considering a career in book, magazine, or electronic publishing, the Columbia Publishing Course will give you the tools and the training you need to succeed. It would take you a year in an entry-level position in publishing to learn what you will learn in six-weeks here, and ten years to meet all the people you will meet. This six-week intensive course is the shortest graduate program in the county. Providing exposure and hands-on experience, as well as access and career placement support to top publishing professionals. The course trains young men and women for careers as editors, literary agents, publishers, designers, publicists, and more. Recognized as one of the top publishing courses worldwide, graduates will have access to a large, active alumni network.
The workshops are the heart of the Columbia Publishing Course. During both the magazine and book workshops, professionals come to the course for the week to guide students as they start mock publishing houses and magazines. Every student has a specific role within the house or magazine and meets with faculty individually to learn the ins and outs of that position. This gives students an opportunity to try out a job before entering the field, and many use that knowledge in their publishing careers.
Emerson College
The Graduate Certificate in Publishing Program recognizes the demand for high-quality targeted education and training that focus on specific segments of the publishing industry. Designed both for publishing professionals who are early in their careers and wish to strengthen and deepen their skills, and for students who have some publishing background but who want an education and training in one specific segment of the publishing industry. Two certificate tracks are offered, one in book publishing and another in magazine publishing, each requiring four courses for completion. Students will master skills needed in the specific area of publishing, with courses tailored to individual professional interests.
Georgetown Center for Professional Development
The Marketing Certificate program explores the many aspects of the marketing process, from identifying customer base and marketing strategy to conducting market research and developing a quality product. You will master the fundamentals of marketing, including effective communications, branding, competitive analysis, product development and pricing strategy. Our instructors will show you how to build a marketing plan from the ground up using a systematic, step-by-step approach. Coursework includes research projects, case studies, strategic planning, and guest lectures from seasoned marketing professionals. The Marketing Certificate is designed to provide middle and upper - level professionals with the advanced marketing skills and strategies they need to compete in the workplace. For those who would not like to participate in a certificate program, courses may also be taken individually.
Kingston University, London
Publishing at Kingston University is taught by leading professionals in the field with expertise in commissioning, marketing, editing, designing and producing books and a range of other publications. Our non-credit short courses are suitable for anyone interested in developing their skills in a hands-on publishing environment. One magazine short course is offered in 2007. This one day discussion based course studies trade and consumer marketing and will focus on the selling cycle and supply chain, case studies and an overview of current trends.
The New School
The New School's M.A. in Media Studies Program was started in 1975. Media Studies offers forty courses each semester in Media Theory and Criticism, Media and Technology, Documentary Studies, Cultural Studies, International Communication, Cinema Studies, and Media Production in video, audio, film and multimedia. The M.A. may be pursued on a part-time (6 credits or fewer) or full-time (9 credits or more) basis with courses offered in the weekday evening hours. The New School also offers an on-line and site-line program of study.
The MA may be pursued on a part-time (6 credits or fewer) or full-time (9 credits or more) basis, with most courses offered in the weekday evening hours. The academic year consists of the fall and spring semesters and an intensive six-week summer term.
During their first semester, degree students prepare with a faculty or administrative advisor a plan of study that includes all degree requirements. Advisors help students in considering the two options based upon their academic and professional backgrounds and goals. It is not necessary, however, for students to select an option until later in the program.
The online program of study will provide an opportunity for students to satisfy all the requirements for the MA through The New School Online. Required theory and research courses and a full complement of electives will be offered online over two academic years. Students working online may choose the thesis and the non-thesis option.
New York University, Center for Publishing
The Master of Science in Publishing at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) is specifically designed by leaders in publishing, as the only graduate program of its kind that teaches the business of publishing. The degree provides you with a strong background in the publishing industry, concentrating on your area of interest, alongside developing essential management skills. This focused, management-oriented degree will help you enhance your skills and knowledge to open doors to fresh opportunities. Our renowned faculty and advisory board will teach you how to think critically, manage proactively, and introduce innovation into traditional publishing.
The NYU Summer Publishing Institute in Book, Magazine, and Electronic Publishing is for recent undergraduates who want to learn, firsthand, the creative and business aspects of New York's book, magazine, and online publishing industries, this program combines lectures and workshops in every aspect of these fields. The faculty comprises more than 100 publishing experts--editors, publishers, marketers, art directors, agents, production managers, and authors, among others. A book publishing simulation organizes participants into publishing houses competing for titles and authors. A second simulation guides students through the creation of a new magazine from editorial concept to business plan.
Northwestern Medill School of Journalism
Whether you want a career in newspapers, magazines, broadcast journalism, public relations, new media or other fields that require good writing, Medill will prepare you. With the graduate program in Magazine Publishing, you begin with an idea and three months later you have a published, nationally distributed magazine and a World Wide Web site, as well as budget and circulation projections and a completed advertising campaign. In the process, you gain an intimate understanding of what it takes to make a magazine.
A second program offered, New Media offers an opportunity for students to develop a range of Web skills: reporting and writing for a Web site, designing a Web site and creating an economically viable Web publication. This last skill is the focus of the Web publishing project, the capstone quarter for the New Media sequence. Professionals claim that these programs have some of the most productive, useful training in the art of publishing successful magazines.
Oxford Brookes University
One of the largest graduate publishing programs in the world, Oxford Brookes boasts a highly international group of students, well-qualified teachers and a wide range of visiting speakers from the industry. The masters programs allow for in-depth exploration of specialist areas through independent study and dissertation. Currently, four publishing programs are offered with each taught in modules so that students will acquire specialist knowledge and skills, learning through work on ‘real life’ publishing. The MA in Publishing gives a solid knowledge of publishing processes and their management providing scope to develop specialist skills required for career development. The MA in International Publishing is geared towards students who may already be working in publishing but want to increase their knowledge of international publishing management and issues related to publishing in a global environment.
The MA in Publishing and Language is targeted at those who wish to work in the field of international co-editions, translations, or international educational publishing. The MA in Digital Publishing provides a focused opportunity to examine of forms of web publishing with particular reference to standards of mark-up and accessibility. It provides an opportunity for the practical investigation of the strategies to publish digital media using industry adopted technologies. The European Master in Publishing is an integrated international curriculum for the future publishers of Europe, where modules have been developed and adapted to provide skills appropriate to the individual needs of students.
Short Professional Courses for Publishers
Our wide range of professional development short courses accommodate busy schedules for those already working in publishing, providing options for one-day and evening courses. Whether you are interested in extending your focus into new areas of publishing, such as selling rights or financial management, or just interested in polishing computer skills, there are courses here that will help you. Many of the courses can also be delivered in-house to a group of delegates from one company, or a consortium of companies, at their offices. Entry level courses are available to provide access to basic publishing skills. As well as being of relevance to people working in publishing companies, these courses will interest people working in the many companies that publish documents even though they are not publishers. Staff responsible for these activities can find themselves expected to produce well-designed effective documents for marketing, public relations and information to a schedule and on a tight budget. Efficient use of resources is essential and our courses can help your staff develop their skills in this area.
Pace University
Pace University, located in the heart of the publishing capital of the world, brings in a faculty of experienced publishing professionals who add both variety and excitement to classroom discussions with their own current perspectives on the industry. Offering both a MS in Publishing degree and several publishing certificate programs, Pace programs are especially designed to equip you with comprehensive hands-on training in every important area of publishing, including marketing strategies, book and magazine production, financial applications, and information systems. Internship placements with leading magazine and book publishing houses provide opportunities for students to build on their knowledge with hands-on experience. Certificate programs are designed for professionals who would like to extend their knowledge of the publishing field by attending in-house sessions or by completing the curriculum's requirements online. Courses include marketing, distribution methods, editorial principles, magazine circulation and legal aspects of publishing.
Simon Fraser University
As Canada’s most comprehensive writing and publishing program, Simon Fraser not only offers full certificates but allows students to take individual courses. Located in both Vancouver and Surrey, all instructors are dedicated professionals working in their industry who are ready to help turn specific interests into new career paths. New classes are offered each semester, with distance correspondence and online sessions.
The SFU Summer Publishing Workshops attract participants from across Canada and around the world. More than 100 faculty members teach 37 workshops in books, magazines, editing, and design that are based on real-world industry simulations that reflect the evolving industry landscape. This is the largest line-up ever and developed from publishing industry needs, every year individual workshops are reviewed and curriculum is brought up-to-date to reflect the most current professional publishing training to be found anywhere.
Stanford University
Stanford offers highly tailored courses for working professionals who want to expand their expertise in the business of publishing. Our participants are drawn from publishing companies, associations, corporations, and non-profits throughout the U.S. and around the globe. For nine intense days, you participate in lectures, seminars, study groups, and workshops designed and led by the most experienced and capable working professionals in U.S. publishing today. Working one-on-one with faculty, students have the opportunity to have magazines critiqued, taking back to their offices specific suggestions that become enormously helpful once brought back to the office for discussion.
Participants will also be assigned to small groups and guided in developing a plan for the launch of a new publishing venture. Presentation of each group's idea takes place in front of the entire magazine or book group on the last morning of the Course. Top groups present their ideas in a combined book/magazine session as a grand finale to the Course.
Courses offered include: Stanford Professional Publishing Course, Strategic Planning for Publishing Eecutives, Publishing on the Web and Virtual Seminars
International Pre-Course
For those coming from outside the United States, we strongly urge you to also attend the two-and-a-half-day International Pre-Course, starting July 14. This series of classes provides our international participants with information about U.S. publishing and new media industries fundamental to understanding later sessions. The Pre-Course also includes field trips and tours to San Francisco and Silicon Valley venues related to publishing and new technologies. U.S. participants may take the Pre-Course at their discretion.
Publishing on the Web
Publishing on the Web is an intense, three-day learning experience--a workshop, not a conference--for publishing professionals who want to roll up their sleeves and rethink their web publishing strategies. It affords you the opportunity to benchmark your web strategies against those of other publishers, to assess how you could do more with your existing resources, to redesign your business model so that it's poised to take advantage of the upturn in the economy.It's also a place where you'll sit in front of a computer and watch as your website is test-driven and critiqued by others, and where you'll be challenged to analyze and critique others' content-rich sites. You come back to the office with pages of notes on how to improve your site.
- Strategic Planning for Publishing Executives (April) - An intensive 3-day program for senior publishing executives taught by faculty of Stanford's world-renowned Graduate School of Business
- The Stanford Professional Publishing Course (July) - A 9-day course for mid-career book and magazine professionals taught by luminaries in the U.S. publishing industry.
- Publishing on the Web: A Stanford Workshop (November) - A workshop for magazine, association and corporate professionals who manage content-rich websites for their organizations
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University offers a wide of array of undergraduate publishing courses each year through its Journalism Department. Courses range from publication management, to magazine editing and production, to publishing theory. Most require permission from the instructor or program coordinator.
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley offers a book publishing course entitled: “Getting Started in the World of Book Publishing”. Anyone interested in writing, editing, producing, marketing, or selling books needs to know how it works. This course presents the basic structure of publishing, following the development of a single book from manuscript to market, while offering help and information for writers and people who want to find their way into book publishing. The course includes a description of the Northern California publishing scene and the rest of the game.
University of Chicago
The International Museum Publishing Seminar addresses planning, design, editorial, financial, and marketing issues across the spectrum of museum and non-profit publishing today. Topics range from the philosophical to the practice and much more. Offered bi-annually, this not for credit open enrollment seminar, addresses a wide range of products and media in museum publishing. The next National Museum Publishing Seminar, the 13th in this series, will take place June 12-14, 2008 at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza in Chicago. The Museum Publishing Seminar is the only seminar devoted to the needs of professionals who publish within museums. It attracts an audience of 250 to 300 professionals from museums around the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. In 2008, it is sponsored by the Graham School of General Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago History Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and The Mexican Fine Arts Museum.
University College, London
University College’s Centre for Publishing has an international perspective and is a pioneer of evidence-based publishing industry research. It has a commitment to knowledge transfer, presenting courses, seminars and workshops for the publishing industry and those concerned with it, including authors, readers and librarians. In addition to the MA and PhD programs listed below, short courses are available throughout the year.
The MA in Publishing is the best and most comprehensive preparation available for entry to the industry. A program of study that includes all the knowledge and skills needed to become a successful publisher. Taught by experts and practitioners and with master classes from industry leaders, the Centre for Publishing MA is the only program to cover the entire spread of publishing disciplines, from fiction and trade to professional, academic, scholarly and educational. The aim of the course is to equip you with a clear understanding of how modern publishing works and to give you the knowledge, confidence and abilities to move quickly in building a successful publishing career. A period of professional placement is included to ensure that you begin successfully.
Our doctoral program is open to recent graduates and professional practitioners alike, and aims to provide a learning environment which encourages critical thought, the building of links between theory and practice, and self-direction within a supportive, highly engaged, peer community. Our current students, both full and part-time, come from different parts of the world, and from a range of publishing and information management backgrounds. There are also opportunities, from time to time, for well qualified staff to join the Centre as research fellows to work on medium- and longer-term funded projects. PhD students undertake a piece of supervised research, working independently or as part of a larger research team working on externally funded projects.
University of Denver
The University of Denver Publishing Institute, offers an intensive full-time, four-week course for graduates seeking careers in book publishing. The program examines all aspects of book publishing, with a special session on magazine publishing, and offers workshops in editing, marketing, and production. The Institute offers a wealth of workshops and teaching sessions in editing, marketing, and production, conducted by leading experts from all areas of publishing. During the final week, the Institute provides career counseling sessions to assist students in finding positions in publishing.
University of Plymouth, UK
Established in 1975, the publishing course was designed to give graduates a hands-on experience of the publishing industry, designed specifically to develop a professional and practical approach to publishing. The first portion of the program is taught through lectures, seminars and workshops, while the second portion shifts focus towards more independent and practical work. The program consists of five assessed modules and one non-assessed component.
University of Wisconsin, Professional Development
If you’re on track for an executive position in marketing, you know how critical it is for you to gain a big-picture understanding of the vast array of elements that fall under the heading of “marketing.” The Excellence in Marketing certificate series includes two core programs — Strategic Market-Based Planning and Tactical Marketing — which provide an A-Z overview of all areas of marketing, plus your choice of electives to build knowledge in areas that meet your specific needs. These high-quality marketing programs are ideal for professionals in business-to-business, service and high-tech industries.
Virginia Commonwealth University
The VCU School of Mass Communications serves as home to the Adcenter, a nationally ranked graduate program in advertising, uses an environment similar to an advertising agency: teams of student art directors, writers and strategists work together to develop campaigns. The curriculum is divided into five tracks including art direction, copywriting, creative brand management, creative media strategy, strategy. The program includes internship placement as well as a mentoring program.
VCU also offers an Executive Education Program, Account Planning, an intense 5-day training program designed to give you the special skills you need as manager of a key department in the agency: new thinking about research, improvisational brainstorming, consumer engagement, media (traditional and non-traditional), understanding the client mindset, managing and refitting a planning department to deal with new kinds of challenges and managing your career. The program includes intensive one-on-one training in presentation skills with workshops on non-traditional media and working closely with the creative department.
Wharton Programs for Working Professionals (WPWP)
Wharton Programs for Working Professionals offers post-baccalaureate programs of study designed for working adults who do not have previous coursework in business. The emphasis is on the application of concepts learned, to everyday managerial decision making. Although students may take individual courses without pursuing a full certificate, specific programs of study are offered, each leading to a post-baccalaureate certificate. These programs include Business Essentials, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing.
