Photoshop for Undergraduates

I am developing a course on photography and was intending to include lessons in the use of Adobe Photoshop.
Unfortunately, I discovered that the student's cost for a license would be nearly $200.
This is unfortunate since PhotoShop is a great project; however, in view of the cost
I am now planning on usng the freeware Gimp.
I suspect that Adobe might eventually lose customers by not having a marketing
option for instructional use. Nevertheless, my students and I will probably do very
well with Gimp.
Too Bad
Peter Pershan
Harvard  Univ.

It looks like your Law School has a computer lab with Photoshop available.  http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/administration/its/students/additional-information-pages/ lab.html
Here in NY most community colleges have Photoshop available in at least some of the on campus computer labs.
Regardless, if you're going to have the students shoot RAW and you want to go open source, I'd suggest taking a look at RawTherapee.  Truth has a date stamp - just because someone says it won't work on a given platform doesn't mean that is still the case even as of the latest compile.
Having said that, I just bought Photoshop and with the exception of not yet knowing how (if?) to spot white balance an image, I'm doing raw processing just about as quickly and, sad for this open source aficianado to say, getting better results out of my crappy photography skills (only had a dSLR for 2 months now) with ACR / Ps than I was with RawTherapee.
Have you checked out the curriculum thingees that Adobe has in their educational resources area?  Might be some neat ideas for assignments.

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