07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M
Off-Campus Location OCL
Section Information for Fall 2011
This course will offer graduate students an overview of the tenets and practices of modern historical documentary editing. Students will learn how to create an historical edition from the initial search for relevant documents to the final finished product. They will also be expected to complete an editing project. Among the skills to be covered are transcription, proofreading, annotation and indexing. Particular emphasis will be placed on electronic publishing. Documents for the course will be drawn from the post-White House papers of Eleanor Roosevelt.HIST 692 001 will meet at the GW Archives.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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