This is your challenge. The discipline you bring to the classroom and your assignments. The profession of photojournalism is tightly controlled by deadlines and printing schedules. An essential attribute for a photojournalist is the ability to produce the best possible images, captions and layouts within a fixed time. In the real world of photojournalism, it makes little difference whether you shoot for a weekly newspaper or a globe-circling international magazine.
All photojournalists have deadlines.
Editors impose some deadlines, others by the ephemeral nature of news events or fleeting moments that will never again be repeated. Demanding deadlines will apply to the nine assignments you will shoot. Few excuses will be accepted. Images that are late will be reduced by one letter grade. Attendance is required because it is essential.