Shameless plug V

With full disclosure (I teach both courses) here is a shameless plug for two Ryerson University magazine-related courses which are quickly coming up:

• The Business of Magazine Publishing -- a 14-week course (2½ hours every Monday night, starting September 10th) that is a mile wide and an inch deep, covering all the aspects of Canadian magazine publishing from editorial to production, contract publishing and trades, circulation and advertising. It is intended to be an overview, insight into how the various parts of the business fit and work together for success.
  
• So You Want to Start a Magazine? -- an intensive, two-day weekend course (14 hours) designed for those who think they'd like to start a magazine soon and want to find out what's involved. It focusses on very practical matters and provides templates, tools, financial models and checklists that beginning publishers can use to their advantage. The September course is Friday 21st and Saturday 22 (deadline to register is September 15); the November course is Friday 9th and Saturday 10th (deadline to register is November 3)
  

Both courses are offered at the downtown Toronto campus. Ryerson offers a range of courses in Magazine Publishing as night school or on weekends and offers a certificate, in which a number of complementary courses are taken over a few years. To find out more about the 15 courses that are made offered, go to the Magazine Certificate program pages in the Ryerson course calendar. There is also an information night for prospective students on Thursday, August 23rd at 4:30 p.m.