Program Overview

Graduate Certificate: Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices

The Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices is a 12 credit hour certificate program open to any student pursuing a graduate degree in any department at the University of Colorado Boulder. This program integrates media practices, theories, and innovations in art and technology into research, allowing students to experiment with and research media and artistic practices.

Course Requirements

The IDMP Certificate requires the successful completion of 12 credit hours of Seminar Courses and Production Workshops and Topics:

• Seminar Courses (6 credit hours)
  • CMDP 5100 (3) Research and Methodologies Seminar
  • CMDP 5600 (3) Documentary Lab Seminar
• 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.

Resources

Students have access to DCMP equipment, facilities, and other resources as long as they are enrolled in a course that fulfills certificate requirements.

Application Guidelines

To be accepted into the program, students must be a graduate student in good standing with the Graduate School, submit a statement of interest, and meet with the Associate Chair to discuss their goals as a student in the program. Acceptance into the program is at the discretion of the Associate Chair.