Graduates are eligible for membership in the chartered provincial and national professional societies. This two-year diploma program delivers practical training in newspaper journalism. The College newspaper, The Algonquin Times, is the focus for work in the second and third levels. Students generate story ideas, write and edit copy, find pictures worthy of publication, lay out pages and run The Algonquin Times as a community newspaper. The program covers the main elements of multimedia planning and development.
Equal importance is given to the creative and technical aspects.
The program follows a hands-on approach to learning, and emphasizes individual skills while stressing the importance of teamwork. The program requires students to complete a range of multimedia projects of varying levels of difficulty. The program concludes with a four-week internship. This two-year diploma program provides students with a thorough technical knowledge of contemporary photographic applications. The program is divided into four levels with most of the students' time spent doing practical hands-on work in the College's studios, darkrooms, and computer laboratories.