Overview

Students in the Media Production program of the University of Colorado at Boulder learn to engage creativity as a way of knowing and a means through which to communicate complex ideas. Critical Studies courses help majors develop critical perspectives that place media practices within a broad cultural and historical continuum of innovation.

Studio classes enable exploration of a diverse range of production topics, offering hands-on experience with a variety of media tools. Concentrations enable students to specialize in a particular practice area – documentary media, immersive media or sound – or create a blend through the integrative media option.

Program Tracks

Documentary Media Practices

The documentary media concentration provides students with the foundation to engage with their communities and find their voices as nonfiction artists and media producers. This concentration focuses on hands-on instruction and encourages collaboration, introducing students to the theories, practices and technologies associated with contemporary documentary media production. Students will learn how to implement techniques in the field to produce creative documentary projects and to develop an ethically informed, critically aware practice that harnesses the power of documentary media to build a better world.

Immersive Media Practices

We see the future of immersive storytelling as an active, connected, social and presence-inducing experience. The immersive media concentration is designed to introduce students to technologies and mediums of the future while providing a foundation for creative thinking, considerate design, aesthetic sensitivity and engaging storytelling. This concentration introduces students to new learning experiences through instruction and hands-on experience with the technologies and techniques necessary for producing meaningful and engaging immersive content. Students will learn to question and intervene in the designed spaces of immersive media with the goal of bringing critical awareness to their cultural, social and political impacts and significance.

Sound Practices

Students in this concentration learn the tools, techniques and technologies of sonic practices ranging from sound art to electronic music to podcast production. A focus on creating a practice of deep and critical listening and exposure to a diversity of sound practitioners challenges students to think creatively and conceptually about sound in order to broaden both their technological and conceptual understandings of sound and to enable them to engage constructively and creatively with sonic worlds.

Integrative Media Practices

This option allows students to build their own concentration blending aspects of multiple practice areas. This focus teaches students to engage an audience through visual storytelling using a variety of media tools, techniques and technologies.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Critical Media Practices Workshop

Exploring Culture and Gender Through Film

Contemporary Image Making Practices

Images and Stories

Multimedia Composition

Media Production Methods and Ideas

Sound Practices

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-08 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Boulder, United States

Disciplines

Media Studies & Mass Media View 909 other Bachelors in Media Studies & Mass Media in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

Application

Application fee ($65 for domestic applicants, $70 for international applicants

Personal Essay (required, 250–650 words)

Letter of recommendation

High school or secondary school transcripts

In addition to the general admission requirements, all international applicants are required to meet a minimum standard of English proficiency.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

48724 USD / year

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Out-of-State

46736 USD / year

≈ 46736 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

16574 USD / year

≈ 16574 USD / year

Living costs

Boulder

United States

950 - 1350 USD / month

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