Graduate Certificate: Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices
The Graduate Certificate in Emergent Technologies and Media Arts Practices (ETMAP) is a 9 credit hour certificate program that is open to any student pursuing a graduate degree in any department at the °µÍø½ûÇø. In the program, students integrate media practices, theories and innovations in art and technology into their research. Students both experiment with and research the media and artistic practices that they study. The program will be of particular interest to students whose media research is practice-led and students who wish to integrate media arts practices into their research.
The IDMP Certificate requires the successful completion of 12 credit hours of Seminar Courses and Production Workshops and Topics:
I. Seminar Courses (6 credit hours)
CMDP 5100 (3) Research and Methodologies Seminar
CMDP 5600 (3) Documentary Lab Seminar
II. Production Workshop and Topics (6 credit hours)
CMDP 5500 (3) Documentary Production Workshops
CMDP 5900 (3) Documentary Production Topics
The IDMP Certificate program can usually be completed in one to two years. After the course requirements are met, students must provide a transcript to the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies. The Certificate will appear on the student’s record at that time or upon graduation.
Course Descriptions
CMDP 5100 (3) Research and Methodologies Seminar
Explores documentary media preproduction tactics and strategies, including basic research approaches, planning, pre-visualization, stylistic approaches, scheduling, working with archive and documentary materials and documentary ethics.
CMDP 5500 (3) Documentary Production Workshops
Workshops and develops technical skills in documentary media production.
CMDP 5600 (3) Documentary Lab Seminar
Explores and workshops documentary media projects and ideas from a variety of disciplines. A team-taught course, with affiliated faculty working in design groups within the documentary lab in one or more areas, such as Art and Art History, Anthropology or Geography.
CMDP 5900 (3) Documentary Production Topics
Incorporates reflective study and practice in a course that consists of rotating topics in contemporary documentary practices, such as media essays, observation and participation, personal histories and voices, emergent technologies and documentary media and interpretive ethnography.
Students have access to DCMP equipment, facilities and other resources as long as they are enrolled in a course that fulfills certificate requirements.
To be accepted into the program, students must be a graduate student in good standing with the Graduate School, submit a statement of interest to the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and meet with the Associate Chair to discuss to their goals as a student in the program. Acceptance into the program is at the discretion of the Associate Chair.
For more information about this program, please contact the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies or CMCI Graduate Advising.
Reece Auguiste
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Email: reece.auguiste@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-735-8327
Office: STAD Gate 7, Suite 255-10
CMCI Graduate Advising
Email: cmcigrad@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-735-0730
Office: Case W361
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