Diploma In Photojournalism |
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| Course Code | VPH009 |
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| Fee Code | DI |
| Number of Modules | 21 |
| Duration (approx) | 2100 hours |
COURSE AIM
The Diploma in Photojournalism is a broad based, practically oriented training course that will develop the essential skills required to work in this field. The student will develop a variety of written and photographic work that can be used as the basis for a professional portfolio.
COURSE STRUCTURE
This diploma course is made up of 18 modules (1800 hrs total)
PLUS Research Project l and Research Project ll (200 hrs total)
PLUS 100 hours of work experience or industry meetings (100 hrs).
Study modules
The 20 study modules are listed below (click on each course for more detail):
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Freelance Writing Advanced Freelance Writing Publishing l Publishing ll Editing I Introduction to Photography Photo Practice Photo Technology Digital Photography Photo Lighting Photoshop |
People Photography Programming Websites (HTML) Visual Basic.Net Project Management Business Studies Introduction to Psychology Marketing Foundations Research Project l Research Project ll Industry Meetings (see below) |
To fulfill the requirements of the diploma, the student must complete all course Set Task and Assignments, and pass an exam for each study module (18 exams).
This involves participating in at least 100 hrs of seminars, workshops, committee meetings, meetings of local journalists or photographers.
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Photojournalists work in publishing (electronic or print media) either self employed (freelance) or in house (employed by a publisher); contributing images and (in smaller enterprises), writing as well to published work. Opportunities are relatively strong and diverse for skilled photographers, but for the person who can also wrtite text and process images using software, demand for this mix of skills has been very high.
