This is not for cultural enrichment, but because faculty members have realized that these best and brightest students cannot interpret visual information. This is very scary. Street photographs look too real. The so-called art world fails to realize that street photographs are fictions, that the meanings are new, that the world has been transformed as much as in any other medium. The seduction is in the surrealism.
Good street photographs teeter on the edge of chaos.
They may be balanced, but not secure. There is a prevailing belief that art evolves, and that style must be reinvented every decade. Photography IS different. It was born whole. A photographer's style comes from continually asking these questions, and answering them by working.