I doubt it. There is so much lab time required in the first three or four semesters of photography, it would be nearly impossible to get the same quality instruction you get when interacting with your instructor during the process of developing your film looking at your contacts with the instructor and then printing them for the best print using your fellow students and the instructor for ideas on how to best print your images.

Attending the critiques of the assignments with ten to twenty other interpretations of the same assignment is perhaps some of the best learning experiences you can get from the class experience