Each joins the National Press Photographers Association. Once they've learned the basic skills of photography, they complete weekly journalism assignments. The professor edits each assignment and the student then uses one of two Polaroid sprint scanners in the School's 20 station digital imaging lab to convert the film image into a computer file. The digital image is processed using Adobe PhotoShop software and proofed to one of several different types of high resolution printers. By the end of the semester each student has a basic portfolio of six images and a picture story.
Students write captions for each image as well as a short text to accompany the picture story. . . .