Thanks for the interest guys
We have a rough course outline and will be posting that in a couple days. Broadly speaking it will be 2/3 writing oriented and 1/3 targeted towards composing/editing pics and other technical aspects. We are already considering the concept of having guest professors at certain points or to provide certain material - will announce when we have something that's worthy of seeing the light of day.
HoA - students will be required to write one chapter (or was it two, I forget) of a moderate length. We'll probably be quite liberal on the subject of the pictures though - I know what you're worried about.
NOTE TO ALL: for those of you who've expressed tentative interest - we can likely only take on about 10-15 students in all so that everyone gets decent attention and help without the course dragging on forever. We'll probably draw up a list at some point so people can commit to joining etc. Writing up all the materials will take a while so there's plenty of time before you have to decide.