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Diploma In Photojournalism

Course CodeVPH009
Fee CodeDI

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):

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).

Industry Meetings

This involves participating in at least 100 hrs of seminars, workshops, committee meetings, meetings of local journalists or photographers.



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.  This course is internationally accredited through I.A.R.C