The journalism program is offering two one-credit workshops this winter. The first is on photojournalism and the second is on using description in nonfiction writing. Enrollment is limited to 15 students in each workshop. Journalism majors have priority through the first day of classes in the winter term.

“Introduction to Photojournalism” will be taught by Steve Ringman, a photographer for The Seattle Times. The workshop is scheduled from 12:30-4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1, and Friday, Feb. 8, in Communications 302.

“Devil in the Details: How to Bump Up Your Writing Using Color and Description” will be taught by Maureen O’Hagan, a reporter for The Seattle Times. The workshop is scheduled from 12:30-4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, and Friday, Feb. 22, in Communications 302.

How to enroll

Download and complete a “498/499 course permission form.” It’s on the Undergraduates page of the Department of Communication website. Choose “499 – Directed Research C/NC (section B).” Put in the name of the workshop where it says: “The nature of the work which I propose ….”

Take the course permission form to Tabitha Bronsema in the Undergraduate Student Services Office, Communications 118, by 4:45 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 7. You must complete enrollment by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 9, to reserve your space in the workshop. After that date, the workshop will be opened to other students.

The workshops are graded credit/no credit. Each workshop will have approximately four assignments, some of which will be done during the Friday meetings and others that will be done as homework. You cannot make up work missed during the Friday meetings. That means you must attend both days of a workshop to receive credit.

Questions? Contact Randy Beam at rabeam@uw.edu.

More about Maureen O’Hagan: O’Hagan has been a reporter at The Seattle Times since 2002. Before that, she worked for Willamette Week, a feisty alternative weekly in Portland, and for The Washington Post. She has received national and regional recognition for her work, including awards for narrative writing, investigative reporting, education reporting, sports reporting, food reporting and health care reporting. Today, she spends as much time poring over dense public records as sitting in strangers kitchens, just listening. And she wonders often about her good fortune.

More about Steve Ringman: Ringman has photographed the Contra War in Nicaragua; earthquakes in El Salvador, San Francisco and Mexico City; the culture of baseball in Japan and two World Series in the United States; global warming in the Arctic and the Bering Sea; and malaria-relief efforts in Tanzania and Zambia. Ringman has twice been named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. Ringman worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, Antioch (Calif.) Daily Ledger and Pittsburg (Calif.) Post-Dispatch prior to joining The Times.