Critical Media Practices

Department Highlights

Student using VR headset in the Immersive Media Lab

Immersive Media Lab

The Immersive Media Lab features a teaching/presentation area and four technology workstations. Each station includes hardware and software for creating and showcasing virtual reality, augmented reality and 360-degree experiences.

CU students exploring the Wanderers app—created by Roberto Azaretto, Jiffer Harriman and Teri Rueb—in front of Fiske Planetarium. Photo by Bentley Brown.

Wanderers CU

CU students exploring the Wanderers app—created by Roberto Azaretto, Jiffer Harriman and Teri Rueb—in front of Fiske Planetarium. Photo by Bentley Brown.

Student capstone showcase

Student Work Showcase

Check out the latest undergraduate capstone gallery for senior media production majors.

The Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) addresses the how and why of creative practices in the 21st century.

You will also learn critical perspectives so that you can place media practices within a broad cultural and historical continuum of innovation. We are educating future media artists and creators, which means developing professional production skills in a constructive and collaborative environment.  

Work by Feng

Media Production

DCMP's undergraduate degree and minor

Work by Justin Trupiano

Graduate Degrees

Master's, Doctoral and Certificates

Visiting Artist Series

Visiting Artist and Scholar Series

See upcoming speakers and view prior talks.

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People

Meet faculty, graduate students and staff of DCMP.

Faculty and Staff     Graduate Students

Undergraduate Opportunities

Pursuing a Media Production degree from the Department of Critical Media Practices at CU Boulder means creating and thinking about media in completely new and innovative ways.  

Our bachelor’s degree trains students to become innovative media creators. 

Students majoring in any discipline may pursue a minor in Media Production in the Department of Critical Media Practices.

For Prospective Students

Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media
Immersive Media Lab

Graduate Programs

The Department of Critical Media Practices graduate program is comprised of a PhD in Emergent Technologies and Media Arts Practices, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices, and a Graduate Certificate in the field. Situated in the interstices of humanities, arts, and computational technologies the PhD is a 4-year fully funded practice-led program of interdisciplinary and transcultural scholarly research into new and evolving creative practices rooted in innovations in media art production technology, aesthetics, representation, and embodiment.

Graduate Certificates

The Graduate Certificates are 9-credit programs open to any currently enrolled graduate student at CU Boulder and are designed to provide students from any field with a complimentary grounding in Critical Media Practices. The certificate program’s practice-based approach to research, scholarship and creativity introduces students to documentary forms, production methods, histories, theories, and aesthetics of the documentary moving image on all platforms including sound and immersive environments.

For Prospective Students

Department News

DCMP & College Events

Careers in Critical Media Practices

  • Documentary media
  • Cultural industries
  • Social media
  • Curatorial programming
  • Multimedia arts production

Contact the Department of Critical Media Practices

  Email DCMP 

  Lori Wichhart
Department Assistant

 

  Critical Media Practices
Stadium 255 (Gate 7)
2085 Colorado Avenue
University of Colorado Boulder
UCB 477 
Boulder, CO 80309-315

   303-735-6382

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