Each student will spend at least one week per quarter with a staff member in charge of a specific area of the motion picture department, sharing all aspects of daily activity and assisting with routine assignments. This rotation method will allow students to complete at least four weeks with each staff member, thus acquiring the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks. Departmental areas to which students are assigned include curatorial, administration, print inspection and handling, cataloguing, programming, preservation, vault management, projection, and film stills archiving. Team projects will be assigned throughout the year. Examples include the preparation of grant applications, print selection, inventory, preliminary cataloguing, and basic vault management.
Individual projects are part of the mid-term and final exams.